Don’t Forget to Preserve Your Most Precious Memories This World Backup Day
With data loss often striking unexpectedly and leading to permanent loss of valuable memories and information, ensuring reliable physical backups is a non-negotiable. World Backup Day, celebrated annually on 31 March, is a poignant reminder of this essential task.
Whether you’re saving family photos or protecting files from your side gig, Sandisk offers solutions for you to back up all the content you can’t afford to lose.
Top 5 Most Common Backup Mistakes
- Skipping regular backups: Whether personal files or crucial business documents, not establishing a consistent backup routine leaves you vulnerable to data loss. Unexpected system crashes or malware attacks can happen anytime, making your precious data inaccessible or permanently lost.
- Putting all faith in a single backup device: A device can get damaged or stolen, putting your backups at risk, so depending entirely on one storage medium is playing a dangerous game with your data’s safety. Instead, diversify your backup storage solutions with Sandisk’s storage solutions for PC and smartphones. Portable SSDs like the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD offer up to 4TB for simple, cost-effective backups. For smartphones, 2-in-1 flash drives such as SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive Luxe and SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive Luxe are convenient options. These drives, compatible with USB Type-CTM devices, automatically back up photos, videos, and more.
- Forgetting version control: Overlooking version control during backups is another blunder. Not keeping multiple versions of files increases the chance of saving corrupted or wrong data over previous versions. To prevent forgetting version control, establish a system that tracks changes to your files over time. This ensures that you can always revert to earlier versions if needed, helping protect against accidental data loss or corruption.
- Ignoring off-site backup solutions: Many people overlook off-site backup solutions, assuming local backups are foolproof. However, relying solely on local backups makes you vulnerable to site-specific disasters like fires or theft. Using off-site backups means keeping copies of your data in different places so that if something bad happens in one area, your data stays safe.
- Underestimating encryption: Storing unencrypted backups makes your sensitive data vulnerable to unauthorised access or breaches. Implementing strong encryption ensures even if your backups fall into the wrong hands, the data remains protected. Sandisk offers hardware encryption with password protection that helps keep content secure.
About the Author
Adrian Gunning Adrian lives in Melbourne Australia and has a huge passion for gaming, technology and pop culture. He recently finished his a Bachelor of Journalism and is currently focusing on games journalism. When not writing and playing video games, Adrian can be found in Comics 'R' Us debating the pros of the DC Universe and cons of the Marvel Universe.
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