Monday, May 1, 2023 – Why you need to back up your backups – Q&A: Can you help me get back into my LastPass account?

Do you create regular backups of your computer’s hard drive or SSD and store them on an external backup drive?

If so, congratulations. Most people don’t, but since you do you’re one step ahead in the game of data security.

But here’s something for you to think about…

Have you ever considered what could happen if some disaster were to strike and take out your backup drive?

For example, what if a burglar were to break into your home or office and abscond with both your computer and the drive containing your backups?

Or what if a fire were to break out and destroy both your computer and the external backup drive?

As you well know, these are not rare events. Truth be told, burglaries and structure fires happen every single day in every country in the world.

This is why an effective backup plan should include the creation of multiple redundant backups.

One easy way to protect your most important files is to augment your local external drive backups with a cloud backup service like Carbonite or iDrive.

Having your most important files backed up both locally and in the cloud will virtually guarantee that you’ll be able to restore them if your hard drive/SDD goes belly up or if your computer gets destroyed or stolen.

If cloud storage just isn’t your thing (and you’re certainly not alone if it isn’t), you can always just create another (redundant) backup using a second external drive and then store that drive in a fireproof and waterproof lockbox.

Ideally you would store the second backup drive offsite to prevent one disaster from wiping out both backup drives, but if that simply isn’t practical for some reason you need to at least make sure the second drive is securely hidden in a separate room to prevent a thief from easily stealing both backup drives along with the computer.

Bottom line: Backing up your backups and storing both backups securely will virtually guarantee that a drive failure or some other disaster won’t completely wipe out your data for good.

The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Blog…

• Q&A: Can you help me get back into my LastPass account?

This post explains why the answer is most likely no.

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Rick’s Daily Pick…

Amicool External USB 3.0 DVD +/-RW Optical Drive

Need to use an optical drive with a PC, Mac or Linux box that doesn’t have one built-in? This little gem will fix you right up.

Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…

Courage isn’t the absence of fear (and that’s a good thing)

Most people completely misunderstand the true meaning of courage.

Tech news that caught my eye…

• Microsoft to take on Apple M MacBook with new ARM chips & Windows 12

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• Reddit launches chat channels, coming for Discord and Telegram

• AI has better ‘bedside manner’ than some doctors, study finds

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