Most of the posts in this forum are about security in relation to hackin/viruses/etc, but this question is about security in relation to data integrity.
I have data stored on an internal hard drive which is physically separate from my operating system C: drive. This protects me not only from operating system failure (which usually requires a reformat and reinstall), but also from complete drive failure which would mean kissing your data goodbye forever. The data is also backed up regularly using backup software called 'Always Sync' to a wired network drive located in my garage/workshop at the bottom of the garden. This is to protect my data from fire. The most important stuff is also copied to an external usb hard drive just in case both drives happen to fail at the same time. Improbable but not impossible.
I have been asked on many occasions to recover data for friends and relatives who have developed a defective hard drive. Most of the time the drives have been operational with just a few bad sectors causing the operating system to crash,so have managed to get most of their precious family photos and videos back for them. In one instance a friends daughter had a whole years worth of her degree projects on the computer with no backup at all.
With almost every family now owning at least one pc and a digital camera, and using their pc's for school/college/university projects, there must be many, if not most people, with irreplaceable data/photos just sitting on their C:/ operating system hard drive with no backup whatsoever. If I know anything about human nature it's a case of "it will be ok, I'll back it up to dvd tomorrow".
There are many free online data storage facilities available these days. Don't use them myself but worth considering if security, rather than integrity, isn't too much of an issue.
So how safe is your irreplaceable data/pictures/etc, and how do you protect it?
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