How to keep your digital memories safe
With the rise of digital devices such as smartphones, tablets, cameras etc, increase exponentially even files, documents, images and photos that we store on our computers.
But sometimes even a single surge of the power grid to lose all of our ” digital memories “. With this simple guide, we will see some simple methods or tricks to keep safe our memories (photos, images, documents, drawings, etc).
If you want to know how to safely preserve your memories saved on the PC read the following.
1.) One of the safest ways to safeguard our digital data (of any kind) is to make backup copies (perhaps stored in a safe place). We can use the DVD recorder and the computer to create copies of data that we want to preserve, but it is a very immediate and there is also the limit of the capacity of the DVD. Surely it is much better to use any external hard drive (maybe USB); in the market if they are all the skills at a reasonable price: less than $100 you take home a good record to 1 TB. To secure our data, simply plug the external drive to your computer and copy all the data in it that we want to save or store.
2.) For some time, there are sites that allow us to automatically save our data in their server, so you can access them wherever we are with all major electronic devices (cell phone, smartphone, tablet, etc.): Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.). The procedure is quite simple and affordable for everyone, even the less experienced: just connect to the site and register first. At this point a special routine allows us to choose locally (ie in our computer) files or folders that we turn our online store.
3.) Every time we’d make a change in our computer, we will save the file again in the external hard drive with the same name in order to replace the old file. If we want to avoid having to operate manually every time, there is a change, we can install a program that makes the save automatically. Apple systems, for example, there is already installed a great program automatically back up: Time Machine. When the operation of the files and folders that we selected are copied to the server of the sites that offer this service. To access it, just connect to the site, perform all the operations that we want (as well as download a file or photo that we inadvertently deleted in our computer).
