2 tips of choosing the best backup options for your data
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2 Tips of Choosing the Best Backup Options for
Your Data
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•No matter businesses or individuals, without a regular backup for the vital data, it might cost much time, money, energy when crossing paths with data disaster.•For example, a compromised PST file will
lead to Outlook corruption.•And without a backup what you could do is
to find various PST repair tools.
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•Obviously, it’s a bit more difficult for normal people to figure out the useful tool in the market than just use backups to restore the data easily. • So we have to attach great importance to
building comprehensive backups.•Now here are 2 helpful tricks for you.
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1.Consider 3 Following Questions
Before select a backup solution, you should think about these 3 questions first.① What would you like to back up, crucial
documents, operating system or business server?
It can help you make certain which data to be backed up.
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② What are the most biggest threats to your data?
It’s rather crucial to figure out potential dangers for your data. Thus you can perform corresponding measures to avoid it. For instance, you can save your backups in an external disk to get away from virus.
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③ How often do you make a backup?It’s suggested to make regular backups such as every 5 days or even every other day.If you think it troublesome to back up manually, automatic backup is a good choice as well.
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2. Useable Data Backup Options
•After make clear foresaid issues, you can step to make your backups and choose to save it with following 3 locations.
① External Hard Drives or DisksIt’s a common choice for most people.Pros: It is cheaper and handy. Cons: The drives or disks can fail too, especially after a long time use.
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② Network Attached Storage (NAS)Device• In fact, It’s cumbersome to back up a mass of
data in external drives manually. •Thus for companies, it’s better to back up its
data to a NAS device which is convenient for people to share files between networked computers.
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•What’s more, you can save a copy of backups off-site at the same time.• Pros: It can prevent hardware failure. And
internal data can be accessed by plentiful computers. •Cons: It is pretty expensive and requires
certain technology knowledge.
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③ Cloud-Based ServiceThere is another popular backup solution—cloud storage which allows people check their data as long as they are connected to the internet.Pros: The data is available anytime and anywhere.Cons: It costs some subscription fees and may works slowly in uploading and recovering due to network.
