{"id":94,"date":"2009-10-12T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T19:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:8080\/incom\/wordpress\/?p=94"},"modified":"2009-10-12T14:05:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T21:05:57","slug":"best-practices-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/incomsystems.biz\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Best Practices: Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Best practices\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are policies and habits that are proven to be effective. When a computer is involved, a vital best practice is proper backups. Our computers have become our storehouses for important data.  Whether it is your financial records or pictures from your son&#8217;s 5th birthday, this data is very important. These pictures and documents are stored on your hard drive. That drive will eventually fail, destroying your data.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is a good backup policy. There are several options for backing up files. A simple yet effective solution is burning your files to a CD or DVD. Another option is solid state memory: a USB thumb drive or the like. Some companies provide online backup solutions that allow you to upload your data to a remote server.<\/p>\n<p>Another consideration is location. Where are you storing your physical backups? Your backup disks do little good if they&#8217;re destroyed in the fire or flood that destroyed your hard drive. A rented storage unit, a safety deposit box, or a trusted friend could ensure their protection.<\/p>\n<p>Your hard drive will fail. Are you prepared?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Best practices\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are policies and habits that are proven to be effective. When a computer is involved, a vital best practice is proper backups. Our computers have become our storehouses for important data. Whether it is your financial records or pictures from your son&#8217;s 5th birthday, this data is very important. These pictures and documents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4,3,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/incomsystems.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/incomsystems.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/incomsystems.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incomsystems.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incomsystems.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/incomsystems.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/incomsystems.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/incomsystems.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incomsystems.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incomsystems.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}