backups
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These Are Currently the Best Ways to Back Up Your Smartphone
Chances are, you rely on your smartphone an awful lot — so what would happen if it fell off a cliff or down a well? What would you do if you left it in a different country or it got lifted out of your pocket? You should always have a phone data backup in place…
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Warning: Your Android Google Drive Backups Can ‘Expire’, Leading Google To Aggressively Delete Them
Backups are wonderful. They provide peace of mind, a way to protect your future self from potential misery. Unless, of course, those backups get deleted with almost no warning, kind of like what Google will do for your Android device if you don’t use it for a couple of months.
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How Do You Back Up Your Data These Days?
When I joined Gmail in 2007 the concept of eliminating deleter’s regret changed how I managed all of my data. I went from keeping important things and purging everything else to implementing archive mentality in my whole life. Now I only think twice about keeping huge photo dumps or files larger than about 500MB. Other…
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The Downside Of Living In A Digital World
Hurrah for digital media! We’ve got everything we ever wanted at our fingertips within a second or two — or maybe half an hour if we want it in 1080p. There’s just one thing that bothers me: What have we given up in return?