It’s Sunday! (Well, it is in my neck of the global woods.)
And…
I’m officially designating Sundays as: “Answering Your Burning Questions Day”
So if you’d like a chance of being world famous in this freelancer daily email dystopia…
I invite you to send me questions about freelancing or about anything that’s come up in my emails. Just replying is fine… or a crisp, fresh email sent to chris@chrismilham.com.
I don’t promise I’ll print every single one here. But I DO promise I’ll read them.
I’m already getting a small backlog so better crack right into it…
Not long ago I sent an email that talked about Microsoft’s Big “oops” with security. And mentioned about being careful by having our own backups.
A reply to this came in from a long-term subscriber…
Well, long-term in my world as they were on my previous email list — when this one was just a twinkle in my eye.
Because my answer today is so jolly long — necessity I tell you… necessity! — that I’ll just answer one question this time.
So they write:
So what do you suggest as backup? Would portable hard drives work well enough?
— Wanda B. Ackup
Hey, great questions Wanda.
At a bare minimum I’d use a cloud storage service like Dropbox, or OneDrive.
Also keep your files locally on your computer.
The cloud service will have them backed up so if your computer dies you can download them to a new one.
And ideally include a second computer or portable hard drive in the mix.
This avoids a potential “Dropbox wiped all my local files because there was a bug” disaster.
This my super-amazing (not!) backup system:
- 2 computers
- Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive (all for different things).
- The occasional snapshot to an external drive.
This of course only works for actual files.
When you’re using some thing like Google Docs then there’s no files on you computer to speak of.
Then it’s a cumbersome nightmare using something like Google Takeout to get those documents etc converted to files and downloaded.
There’s certainly plenty of other ways to keep backups and avoid disaster.
My way — I think — is a pretty low-pain way to do it. 😊
So there you have it! Using both cloud and local options to store your data and ensure it’s safe for when disaster strikes.
If you want to ensure your files are backed up safely…
And need cloud storage — with a ridiculously large capacity — to help make that happen…
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’til next week…
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