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Happy World Backup Day! /  by Adrian Galli

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Today is World Backup Day!

It is absolutely important to backup your data. It won’t hurt until it happens but the sinking feeling you get when something important is lost to the digital abyss is not something one wants to experience. Backup solutions are usually inexpensive and easy to use—most also need very little of your attention on a regular basis, happening automatically.

A wiseman once said, “There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who have lost data and those who will lose data.”

Setup your backup today, March 31, 2022, so tomorrow you’re not an April Fool!

RESOURCES

How to Backup Your Mac
How to Backup Your Windows PC
How to Backup your iPhone, iPhone, iPod Touch
How to Backup your Apple Watch
How to Backup your Android Phone
How to Backup your Nintendo Switch

RECOMMENDATIONS

iCloud Storage (50GB, 200GB, 2TB options)
Lacie Rugged Hard Drives
Sandisk Memory Cards
Dropbox
Google Drive

Check out what my team and I posted to our Apple Support YouTube Channel about using Time Machine to restore files!

Happy World Backup Day! /  by Adrian Galli

Lacie Porsche Design 1TB Mobile Drive, USB-C

Lacie Porsche Design 1TB Mobile Drive, USB-C

Today is World Backup Day!

Please take the time to make sure all your data on your devices is backed up. There is nothing more disheartening than learning your emails, photos, documents, videos, music, and more are all lost to the ether.

There is an old saying in technology—There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have lost data and those who will lose data.

Backup your things today, on March 31, 2020, so tomorrow you’re not an April Fool!

Downsize Your Photos — Bad Advice /  by Adrian Galli

Popular Science recently posted an article “Your smartphone photos take up too much space. Here's how to downsize them."

Firstly, don't do it. The solution the author provides is defeatist. Photos never take up too much room because, as a general rule, the more data you have the better your photo will look. For example, 14-bit RAW files from a professional camera have insane amount of detail and information. One has so much flexibility and data to work with that editing becomes very powerful.

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