The Royal Gazette recently posted a piece entitled, “Protect your technology from Hurricane Bill, says CSB“. Interesting advice, from the Computer Society of Bermuda.
Not only were islanders reminded to unplug electronics (to save them from electrical surges), but they were also told to backup their data.
One tip is to get a flash drive and copy Word, Excel and PowerPoint files to it for portability.
Any media you can’t bear to lose should be burned to DVDs including films, music and digital photos.
Important work files can be transferred to an external hard drive – but do it before your power goes out. Either use a back-up program found on your computer or manually copy files over.
So you can backup to a USB flash drive, or burn to DVD, or copy to an external hard drive… oh, and you have to do all of this as you board up your house and prepare for the storm to move in.
If they were using an online backup service, all of this data would be securely and regularly backed up, far away from the storm’s path.
While we may not all have the threat of hurricane’s hanging over us, there’s always something that can destroy our beloved data.
