#1066 - Don't Trust the Cloud. You Need to Back Up Your Email and Online Data
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Do you trust the cloud? Should you?
I'm not talking about various conspiracies about how cloud providers are supposedly using your data for things without your permission. This is more pragmatic: will your data be there when you need it? And if not, what will you do?
You need to back up the data you place in the cloud. Regardless of what that data might be, if it's in some online cloud storage and only in that online storage, it's not backed up. And yes, that includes your email, and often your photos as well.
Don't Trust the Cloud. You Need to Back Up Your Email and Online Data has the details.
Also this week
- Get your old style Start Menu back.
- How often to create rescue media.
- Free is never free.
- From one partition, two.
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Don't Trust the Cloud. You Need to Back Up Your Email and Online Data
Your online services won't do it for you.
It's your data, so it's your responsibility to back up the information you keep online.
Read: Don't Trust the Cloud. You Need to Back Up Your Email and Online Data
Also This Week on Ask Leo!
Open-Shell: Regain Your Start Menu |  |
| The single biggest complaint about Windows 11 is the Start menu. Don't like it? There's an app for that. Read: Open-Shell: Regain Your Start Menu | |
How Often Do I Need to Create a New Emergency/Rescue/Recovery Disk? |  |
| You may choose to wait on that. Read: How Often Do I Need to Create a New Emergency/Rescue/Recovery Disk? | |
The Hidden Cost of Free Email: Protecting What Matters Before It's Gone |  |
| I hear of free email accounts being lost constantly. Here's how to reduce your risk and use free email accounts safely. Read: The Hidden Cost of Free Email: Protecting What Matters Before It's Gone | |
How Do I Split a Partition? |  |
| Let's say you want to partition your C: into two drives. I'll show you how. Read: How Do I Split a Partition? | |
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 | How Do I Split a Partition?Let's say you want to partition your C: into two drives. I'll show you how.Watch: How Do I Split a Partition? |
 | The Hidden Cost of Free Email: Protecting What Matters Before It's GoneI hear of free email accounts being lost constantly. Here's how to reduce your risk and use free email accounts safely.Watch: The Hidden Cost of Free Email: Protecting What Matters Before It's Gone |
 | How Often Do I Need to Create a New Emergency/Rescue/Recovery Disk?You may choose to wait on that.Watch: How Often Do I Need to Create a New Emergency/Rescue/Recovery Disk? |
 | Don't Trust the Cloud. You Need to Back Up Your Email and Online DataIt's your data, so it's your responsibility to back up the information you keep online.Watch: Don't Trust the Cloud. You Need to Back Up Your Email and Online Data |
 | Open-Shell: Regain Your Start MenuThe single biggest complaint about Windows 11 is the Start menu. Don't like it? There's an app for that.Watch: Open-Shell: Regain Your Start Menu |
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