{"id":16514,"date":"2024-07-01T13:30:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collierclerk.com\/?p=16514"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:59:33","slug":"3-2-1-backup-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app.collierclerk.com\/collierclerkcom\/3-2-1-backup-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"3-2-1\u2026 Backup Your Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the greatest advantages we gain from digitizing our information is the ability to access and analyze it with minimal effort. Think about how tedious it would be to sort through tens of thousands of family photos or decades worth of old documents without comforts like Find and Replace<\/em> or metadata tagging. Luckily, we don\u2019t need to worry about that in our digital centric age, however that does mean there are new challenges presented to us to ensure that our information stays safe and accessible. Digital data backups<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0are the equivalent to making copies of physical items, they are the backbone of data retention and security<\/a>\u00a0and the number one contributor to lower stress levels of analysts and engineers worldwide. Let\u2019s go over some best practices for backing up your digital data, how the professionals handle large amounts of enterprise grade data and why backups are critical for organizations like the Clerk\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

To start, you will want to ensure that the data you\u2019re backing up is available in a digital medium. This means that any physical media \u2013 be it photos, documents, movies, songs, etc. are converted and transferred to a computer or smartphone. Technically, this itself is a form of data backup as digital formats can<\/em> be more resilient to degradation than physical <\/a>media,\u00a0 although there is no true perfect<\/em> solution. Computers categorize and organize our daily needs so efficiently and quickly that there is a rule of thumb to follow the \u201c3-2-1\u201d backup idea:<\/p>\n