Securing your data is the utmost priority of any IT user. Your data in your hard disk or online is protected through an anti-virus or some internet security tools, but you have to take your own measures for your data protection. We suggest a triangular solution for your data protection:
Know Your Data
First Step to secure you data is to know
- How much do you have data?
- How much of the data is important?
- What proportion of your data is insignificant?
- Which data has what priority level?
- Which of your data you want to secure/safe from loss?
Plan and Manage
Plan out your data and keep it managed For example; you have to put a computer software assignment#5, you must put file into a drive say "D", in way
University/2020/August/Computer/Software/Assignments/Assignment#5. Such practice of managing data will let you plan out your data. A managed data is easier to locate and to prioritize. Do not increase your data size through unimportant image and multimedia files.
Note: Putting your data on desktop is not a good practice.
Backup
Take backup of your data on regular basis. Medium of your regular backup is preferred to be CD/DVD. The more you had "Plan & Manage" data, the more you had offered yourself ease in backing up your data. You must also check backup files to make sure your data has been transferred successfully or not.