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Why is backing up your data imperative? First reason: You can never know when your hard disk drive, where your accounting data likely resides, is going to suddenly die. When your HDD dies, you'll want to have back-up data.

Second reason: You never know when you'll experience a power fluctuation, or a virus infection. Both exigencies will ruin your data. When your data gets corrupted, you'll want to have back-up data.

Because these possibilities are always hanging over your head, you need to be frequently backing up your data.

(An important point about back-ups: Your back-up data should be in a different storage medium, distinct and physically separate from the hard disk where you store your current data.

Why? It's plain common sense: If your hard disk drive dies, or your data gets corrupted, you will likely lose some or all of your data on that hard disk. Therefore your back-up should be in a separate medium that's unaffected by the crash of your hard disk drive, such as (a) another hard disk drive, (b) a thumb drive, or (c) in the cloud.)

There's a third reason: You may want to restore your data back to its original, not-yet-posted form for various legitimate motivations. This last is what the main article is all about. Go back to the article now.




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