Security News > 2023 > March > World Backup Day is here again – 5 tips to keep your precious data safe
I've still lost access to data for a whole truckload of other reasons, mostly down to simple but regrettable mistakes such as saving over the wrong file, wiping the wrong device, uploading last month's data over this month's data in the cloud, or even just realising I'd left my laptop at home when I really needed to look something up on it.
Given that it's World Backup Day today, here are five short and simple tips for keeping your precious data safe.
You can reduce the time and space needed to make a full backup, and simplify your privacy and compliance obligations at the same time, by getting rid of data you don't need.
Protect your backups from prying eyes by encrypting your backup data before it leaves your computer, so it's secure both in transit and in storage.
On-line, "Live" backups are useful for day-to-day or hour-by-hour rollback of unwanted changes, but you should aim to keep at least one recent backup that's off-line and ideally also off-site.
Remember, World Backup Day isn't the one day every year when you do a backup.