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Understanding backups and redundancy
From the course: Going Paperless: Start to Finish
Understanding backups and redundancy
- The most important part of a paperless system is ensuring your data is safe from loss and theft. This is essential in order to trust your system and to ensure your data is secure. Some tools for protecting your data are backups, encryption, and redundancy. A good backup system includes all of these. A Backup is a copy of your data, stored securely in a separate location. If anything happens, you can restore your data and will not have lost anything. Encryption is a method of encoding data so only people authorized and who have the decryption key can read it. It's a layer of security. Redundancy refers to having more than one copy of your backed up data in different locations. Knowing the types of backup and storage systems available for your data will help you choose which system is right for you. Some of the most popular data storage and backup system types are Local Backups. This refers to a copy of the data on your computer or external hard drive attached to your computer. A…
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