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ChemIT sharing their recommendations and best-practices. May be of particular value to research groups. |
- Backups is a term which applies to restoring current or very recent data.
- Archiving is a term focusing more on restoring prior versions of data or older data.
Synchronizing, especially without access to prior versions, can confer very limited data protection since undesired changes get sync'ed. What can happen to a hacked DropBox.com account demonstrate this danger.
ChemIT-recommended services
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Other backup-related info
Hard drives fail
It's not a question of if a hard drive will fail. Only a question of when. Thus, make sure your unique data is not on just one hard drive.
- Backups is a term which applies to restoring current or very recent data.
- Archiving is a term focusing more on restoring prior versions of data or older data.
Synchronizing is not a panacea
Synchronizing, especially without access to prior versions, can confer very limited data protection since undesired changes get sync'ed. What can happen to a hacked DropBox.com account demonstrate this danger.
How to back up Box.com (or DropBox.com) files?
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