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    Keeping Kids Safe Online

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  • 3-2-1 Backup Philosophy

    Admit it, you have heard you should be backing up your computer files. At some point in your experience with computers, you have probably lost an important document and thought "I should have probably been backing up my files." There are a lot of reasons you could lose your data: data corruption, accidental deletion, theft, flooding, fire.

    You probably thought it's too much work or maybe you don't know how to do it.  It's not "if" you lose your files, it's "when". Backing up your files isn't that tough though and there's actually an excellent philosophy that you can live by. If you follow this philosophy, you can sleep tight at night knowing you will never lose your data.

    It's called 3-2-1 Backup.

    3 copies

    You should have three copies of your files. This typically means the copy on your main hard drive, a copy on an external hard drive in your house or a DVD, and one copy online in the "cloud" or possibly on a hard drive or DVD in a safe deposit box or at a friend/relative's house.

    2 different media types

    Have your data stored on a hard drive, DVD, tape, thumb drive, online, etc.  This prevents different types of hazards.

    1 offsite

    Use an online backup service like Carbonite or Mozy to automatically backup your files online as you create them.      (For photos you could also use a photo sharing site like SmugMug, Picasa or Flickr to backup your photos as well as share them online.) You could also keep a backup hard drive at your parent's house (preferably several miles away from your house).

     

    Cool Tools...

    https://www.carbonite.com/en/
    https://mozy.com/
    https://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials
    https://www.dropbox.com/
    https://evernote.com/
    https://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx


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