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What is a backup?

What is a backup?

From the course: Hard Drive Management for Creative Pros

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What is a backup?

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- Throughout the entire working life of a digital photographer, or anybody that does something digital, all of our stuff is stored on a hard drive. And usually we just have the working drive. And that is, that's a crapshoot. And I mean, like, rolling the dice because sooner or later it's going to come up snake eyes and this is going to quit and all your data is going to go poof. We need to talk about backups. So what is a backup? This drive right over here is our working drive. All of our data is there. A backup is a copy of that drive. So even if this is in protected storage like we've already discussed, it's still not a backup. If something happens to that box, even with all of those drives that protect each other, the data can still go away. It's not really safe until there's another copy.

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