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Keeping Your Stuff Safe, Part 3: Your Files in The Cloud

Cloud (or online) backup services have become quite popular over the last few years. This article explains what cloud backups can do for you, and what to look when shopping for a cloud backup service.

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Keeping Your Stuff Safe, Part 2: the Local Route

All, right, so you’ve heard it over and over and again, and you know it’s true: you need to make regular backups of your stuff. But how?  What options do typical computer users have? In the past few years, the options for preservation and backups have expanded quite a bit, giving users an enormous array […]

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Keeping Your Stuff Safe, Part 1: Why you need a Plan B

An introduction to the “Keeping Your

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Dataset sharing and preservation strategies at Rutgers

The NSF now requires academic researchers to come up with a plan to store and share their digital research data. RUcore is here to help.

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Lessons Learned from Google’s temporary Gmail loss

This past week offered up a little dose of panic to an estimated tens of thousands of users to Google’s free Gmail service, when they logged in to discover that all of their e-mail was missing. This event should be seen as an opportunity for users of Cloud services to reflect on how important that stored data is to them, and what impact it would have on their lives if that content were lost.

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