Well it seems like it is that time of year again. Got two questions on backups. Here’s the short story
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If you are using a USB flash drive to backup your precious photos please stop! That’s not super reliable. Instead get a $120 hard disk backup at least. Wirecutter has a good recommendation. Why a real hard drive. Well SSDs are fast but if you don’t plug them into the wall every year or so they will lose all data. They are electronics after all.
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Use a tool like Dropbox, google photos or apple iCloud to automatically suck your photos and documents into the cloud. These work well and for most folks that is enough.
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The next step up is to just have everything trickle fed to the cloud. Crashplan works well for me and is pretty much invisible.
