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Is it safer to back up my important data on the computer itself, external USB or external hard drive?

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Question added by Sarah Ali , Senior Evaluation Specialist , United Nations
Date Posted: 2016/12/05
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I Think save my important data in more than support external hard drive , external usb and on cloud website.

Alen Ajanovic
by Alen Ajanovic , 2D - 3D Graphic designer, 3D animator, IT administrator, hardware maintenance , FIST Production d.o.o.

Important data? Never mind where it is because any device can fail so go safe and make2 backups on2 different devices.If you really want to store your data for a long time, use magnetic tape backup solution like banks and TV production does!

Sarmed Saeed Sheikh
by Sarmed Saeed Sheikh , Admin Assistant , TGDC(Pakistan)

External Usb or Hard Drive could be use for the backup of important Data and it's safe.

Vikas ray Saini
by Vikas ray Saini , SR. Officer IT , ginni filaments limited

upload your data on google drive if you have google account

Faseeh Mohd koya
by Faseeh Mohd koya , IT SUPPORT ENGINEER [L2] , Ministry of Sports and Youth

The best practice is to take backup in an external hard-disk...

Emmanouil Solanakis
by Emmanouil Solanakis , Electronics Technician / CCTV and security systems , Safe Systems

In my opinion the safest way to backup important data is either on cloud storage services or a NAS backup system. It depends if you want them saved in a local or remote location.

alaa liswe
by alaa liswe , ِAdministrative Assistant , Arab Open University

Its imoprtant to save your data in external drive

Sadat KOURE
by Sadat KOURE , it coordinator , KOMATSU MIDDLE EAST FZE

Never backup your computer to the same computer. Do it and keep it on a Cloud Storage Device. That is the best way to save your data

Salman Ahmed
by Salman Ahmed , Sr. System Engineer , Alpha Data

It’s not recommended to take a backup of your important data on the same computer, it must be store on the secondary location or external storage device. If your computer failed, you will completely lost your data.

 

I will recommend you to do routine backup on the External HDD instead of USB Flash disk.

Mohamed Hassnin
by Mohamed Hassnin , Repair Technician , Green Line For Computer Services

It's better to have a multiple backup storage, Like example you can have a cloud storage like Dropbox, box or google drive and also keep a copy of your file in a n external HDD

Adam Ahmed
by Adam Ahmed , IT & Web Developer , Freelance

Basm allah alrahman alrahim

clone your internal hard drive to onther same size Internal hard drive , and make backup at external storage

 

 

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