Not one where once a month they email themselves the latest documents and letters, not simply trusting that Flickr or Google Photos is the best place to archive everything forever, but a locally based solution that creates redundant copies of files on an hourly or daily basis. Smart computer users know this and have some sort of backup scheme. In an ideal world, systems would never fail and all data would be permanent, but that’s just not how it works. Most people curse and recreate the lost data, or just write it off to bad computers, programs, or similar, but I don’t want to lose irreplaceable photos and videos from my children’s lives, work projects that take weeks to complete, or even archival files like digital copies of my books, ready for an update or new edition. But it happens, and it happens more often than you may realize. It’s too complicated, they don’t have spare disk drives, they’re complacent that their computer will never crash or fail, or they just have no idea that they could lose their data at any time with the crash of a program, failed restart or bad system update. Most computer users I talk with don’t do backups.
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