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Your backup strategies doomed: why your data won’t last forever

All you're really doing is reducing the probability that you won't lose your data, but drives die, cloud systems fail, NAS ...

Think your data’s safe? Not if you’re missing these 7 backup essentials

Encrypting your data ensures that if it falls into unauthorized hands, it’s unintelligible or restricted. Use well tested algorithms to encrypt sensitive information and make sure the encryption keys ...