As Benjamin Franklin stated, ” An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”  The same holds true when you are putting together your strategy for backing up your data on your desktop, laptop, or handheld devices. We now use a variety of devices to access and create email, data, and check and maintain our calendar. Your desktop computer and laptop should be backed up both locally on your network to an external drive and also on the cloud to have your data stored off site. Cell phones and tablets can be set to back up your data to the cloud provided by the manufacturer. Your email accounts, if not internet based, ie. gmail, hotmail, aol, should be setup for IMAP. This not only allows you to access and manage your email from multiple devices, your emails are stored on their email server.

With all this in place, when a calamity occurs you will be prepared. Whether that calamity is a failed hard drive, virus, or physical damage to a handheld. If the unexpected happens, within a few hours and you can be back up and running with no lost data. Apprehensive about storing your data on the a Cloud server? We all think who can be sifting threw our data. Make sure your data is encrypted on the server. By adding encryption to your data on the cloud, you add that extra vital level of security to assure your data is safe from prying eyes and hackers.