Things have been going smoothly for years and suddenly the time has come: the hard drive is broken. If you don’t have a backup, you can only hope that there is something that can be saved with software, use an expensive data recovery service or, in the worst case, even end up completely in the dark. Well, you would have preferred to stick to the 3-2-1 rule.

Everyone should stick to the 3-2-1 rule

Each of us has probably lost a USB stick (view it on Amazon), lost an external hard drive (view it on Amazon) or had the data storage dismantled due to a virus, a stupid Windows update or other circumstances. This is damn annoying, but if you have created a backup copy in advance, you usually have nothing to worry about.

If you are particularly fond of photos, videos, documents or other personal data, it is best to stick to them proven 3-2-1 rule from backup experts:

• 3 copies of the data to be backed up.
• 2 different storage media use (e.g. USB stick, external hard drive, CD, DVD).
• 1 Storage medium not at homebut store it in a completely different location – for example with friends, parents, in a time warehouse or in the cloud.

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This makes creating and updating the appropriate backup data much more complicated, but you are well prepared for any disaster – at least as far as your data is concerned. If, for example, your apartment is destroyed by a fire, you will still have it thanks to the data backup that you have stored outside your home or in the cloud no data loss to complain about.

Back up data in the cloud or would you prefer to save it on a NAS? We explain the advantages and disadvantages of both methods to you in the video:

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