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Good Day WS! Thanks for joining us for West Seattle Daily, Episode #035, brought to you by Sea-Town Real Estate. I'm your host, Christian Harris. Tuesday Tips! Today, we’d like to share a reminder that hopefully motivates you to protect your data before it's too late. Our office manager recently went through a stressful situation where she unfortunately lost some of her data on her phone, text messages, photos etc. She recently switched to an android device & was unfamiliar of all the various apps needed to fully back up data. I've been telling her she needs to switch over to Apple... but to each their own.
Not backing up your digital files, smart phone or computer is usually a mistake people only make once, before realizing how important it really is. Between the possibility of loosing our phone or having your computer crash on you, even your most-trusted gadgets and apps could go haywire and you can lose your data. Or as was the case with me in the past, simple user error and your music library or photos are gone forever.
I for one am a bit paranoid about loosing my data, so I not only backup everything locally but also to the cloud via multiple services.
At the risk of insulting your intelligence, I'll take a moment to explain what a backup is: A backup is just "an extra copy of data in case the original is lost or damaged". It's important to note that there is a big distinction between file storage and sharing services like Dropbox or Google Drive and an actual backup service. These cloud storage services will store certain files but they are not backups of your computer or phones settings, apps or operating system like iCloud for your iPhone, Time Machine for your Apple computer or a third party backup service like Backblaze (which is what I use to ensure my entire computer and all attached hard drives stay backed up in real time).
While I love the integrated Apple Time Machine backup service to an external hard drive and it's saved my bacon many times when I needed to restore a specific file app and on occasion, my entire computer after a failed upgrade... it's still susceptible to the external hard drive failing, being stollen or other local damage.
That's why you should have a backup of all your data that's stored somewhere safe and separate from your everyday devices, like a cloud backup using iCloud if your on the Apple ecosystem or Backblaze.com https://zapier.com/blog/backup-everything/
Do you have any horror stories of lost data and did it motivate you to find a backup solution? Thanks for tuning in & we hope this reminder keeps you productive even when unexpected things occur!