In the above still from an episode of the TV show “The Middle”, Sue Heck had accidently deleted all the family photos. No one had taken on the responsibility of backing up the computer and keeping those memories safe. (The Hecks probably could have taken the computer to a data recovery tech, but who wants to have to do that?)
In this article in the Guardian, Amy Malloy wrote about losing the photographic record of her 20s, […]
We’ve got five computers in our household. We’re almost like a small business – we need regular maintenance and backup. Rather than set up a separate backup device for each computer, I elected to go with a network-attached storage (NAS) device.
You connect the NAS device to your internet router. Your computer sees it as a network device that it can use for backup.
It’s a great way to add storage for backup and also for shared […]
Your digital data is crucially important to the quality of your life. Imagine losing all of the photos of your children, or your client information, or your financial information.
Most of us know about backups and that we should be doing them regularly. Did you know that there continues to be new and easier ways to automate the process?
I recommend three copies of your data:
On your computer storage
On external storage media
In the cloud
Use […]
You may have heard of “The Cloud”. It’s a term that basically just means Internet storage.
Your email, for example, is a cloud service. Your email is stored on an email server, and delivered to your device(s) over the Internet. If your PC dies, or you lose your laptop, your email goes on accumulating on the server, and you can download all of the new email as well as all of the previous email, when you […]
