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Email Quiz 14

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Now that you have the email thing figured out, make sure to keep your data safe and secure. You could use a public cloud provider like dropbox, or a google drive type place - but if your corporate employer is worth their salt, they will forbid you saving the corporate secrets out to the public internet. For one, who knows who can get ahold of it, and for 2, do you really trust your backup to a no name server in the bowels of iceland? ya know, with global warming, when the icecap melts and floods that data center, yup, data gone. so.. best practice is to save to YOUR OWN physical media and secure, typically in a second location (another corporate site) or in a safety deposit box you trust. Local media can be all kinds of things, diskettes use to be used, but with 1.44MB on a 3.5" floppy disk is probably not going to fit your cat collection, and you don't have a drive anyway. USB thumb stick seems like a nice choice, and it is definitely better than nothing, but if you are in charge of site backups consider industrial tapes for your site, with full, and incremental backups offsite. Select the picture above that is a good way to back up your files, will age well against most physical disasters and maybe be there in 6.5 years when you actually want to pull those old IRS records.