{"id":253,"date":"2020-01-13T15:32:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T15:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techwithmike.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2020-03-14T17:30:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T21:30:51","slug":"offsite-backup-of-your-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techwithmike.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Offsite Backup of your data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wpseeds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bakcup.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this post I am going to try to answer a very important question.&nbsp; How safe is your data?&nbsp; I&#8217;m not talking about how secure your data is from prying eyes, although that is also important, I&#8217;m referring to the status of your data in the event of&nbsp; a disaster like fire, flood, or theft of your computer.&nbsp; Do you have a backup?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Better yet, do you have an offsite backup?&nbsp; A basic rule of thumb is to have 3 places where your data is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On your computer<\/li><li>On an external backup drive (in house)<\/li><li>At another location (Off site)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are only saving data on just one or two in the above list, then your data is not safe.&nbsp; Here are different scenarios that explain why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#1: All computer hard drives are susceptible to failure.&nbsp; So by saving your data only to your computer hard drive, you have no layer of protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#2: Having your data backed up to an external hard drive or flash drive is a great idea.&nbsp; However, store the external drive as far away from your house or office as possible.&nbsp; You can store it in a fire and water proof safe or at a friends or relatives house.&nbsp; However, if you continue to #3, you just need store it away from the computer in you house some where so that in the event of a burglary in your house, the thief is less likely to steal the computer along with the backup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#3: In conjunction with #2 above, this keeps your data as safe as possible.&nbsp; Office site storage usually includes&nbsp; a service like iDrive, Crashplan(yea right. Sorry a little bitter about this one), BackBlaze and many others.&nbsp; For this article, I am not reviewing any of these services, but iDrive comes highly recommended.&nbsp; This protects you from hard drive crashes, theft, and disasters.&nbsp; All it takes is you to subscribe to one of these services and download a small program that will upload all your computers important data to the cloud.&nbsp; It&#8217;s really that simple and gives you more than peace of mind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this post I am going to try to answer a very important question.&nbsp; How safe is your data?&nbsp; I&#8217;m not talking about how secure your data is from prying eyes, although that is also important, I&#8217;m referring to the status of your data in the event of&nbsp; a disaster like fire, flood, or theft&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","tag-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/techwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techwithmike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}