Back Up Your Data Before It Gets Lost

For example, how many generations back can you get pictures of from your family? Or, do you still store the files of your old computer in its hard drive? Perhaps, you don’t have time to think about the past that much, and you would rather live in the present. But the thing is, after a while, having your old data and pictures back is worth its weight in gold.

The main reason why most of the people don’t have access to their family’s photos is because they don’t have the time to work on them. Or they are too lazy for that to. Or some just don’t even care. Whatever the reason is, you or your family might appreciate to have access to old photos. It should be great to have a few generations of information. It would be great to have a few generations of information. It is like your own history, and history defines who you are.

Even though if you don’t have access to your ancestors’ pictures, you can start archiving what you have at the moment. The first step should be, if the data is scattered across multiple devices, to address each of them and organize how you will archive them. You can start with the easiest or the most difficult, depending on your habits. And how you want to store them.

Personally, I prefer to have control over my data, so I store them locally on my NAS device. You may prefer to use portable SSDs or HDDs. Or you can use a NAS device with a RAID configuration, which is a great way to store critical data. RAID is redundancy against data loss and possible malfunction. Also, synchronizing with cloud storage can be a great solution in case of a disaster situation. You may be wondering what the point of storing data locally when it is also synchronized with the cloud. If you are comfortable with storing your data in cloud storage, then go ahead and just use a cloud storage. Hopefully it will be redundant enough for ages. However, I believe that automatic synchronization between NAS and cloud storage is the best solution. Also in that setup, data uploaded to the cloud storage can be encrypted for additional security. After all, users of NAS have decided to store their data locally and not in a company’s data center, so it is necessary for some to have their data encrypted in the cloud storage. If the company wants to use data from your storage or in case of a data breach, encryption on your data will add a serious layer of protection.