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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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NY Times Article on the realities and costs of Born Digital preservation

The New York Times today published an article that reflects some of the challenges of preserving born digital content – that is, documents, data and other content that has been created digitally, on a computer or electronic device, and for which there is no physical original (such as on paper). In particular, they highlight the […]

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New Scientist article on “Digital Doomsday”

One of the topics I like to bring up in the discussion of preserving digital data is the idea of a Digital Dark Age… the notion of a period in our historic knowledge that ends up getting lost due to a failure to plan and preserve our early digital content. The New Scientist, however, recently […]

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