New desktop computer?
Disclosure: I am not an early adopter of technology. DH and I have OLD HP Pavilion desktop computers running Vista Home Premium. His is 2009 and mine is 2008. He uses Mozilla's browser and I use G...
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bighatnohorse wrote:Except cloud services, at least Google Drive and Dropbox that I use, maintain backup versions of all of your files. So any corruption that might occur by a "serious infection" that might have access to your cloud-based documents would be limited.
A secondary external backup hard drive is necessary - AND it's a good idea to disconnect the drive when not in use. A serious infection will search out all drives up to and including "cloud" backup platforms.
Example of version history of one of my Google Drive documents, any one of which can be pulled up to replace a current version:
Google Photos (and again I suspect that other cloud based systems are similar) maintains a copy of all deleted photos for 60 days.
I just bought a larger HD (4TB) to backup my cloud based photo and document collections, but I think the probability that it will ever be needed is near zero.
