Backup Strategy

Everyone means to back up until the drive dies or the phone is lost. This builds a real system on the 3-2-1 rule — three copies, two media, one off-site — sized to your actual data and devices, automated so it happens on its own, and (the step everyone skips) tested by doing a restore, because an untested backup is just a hope.

What This Skill Produces

• A 3-2-1 plan — three copies, on two types of media, with one off-site/cloud, mapped to your devices
• Priorities — what to back up first (irreplaceable photos/documents) vs. what's re-downloadable
• Automation — how to make backups run automatically so they don't depend on remembering
• A restore test — actually recovering a file to prove the backup works
• Resilience — protecting backups from ransomware/accidental-deletion and sync tools propagating a deletion to every copy (versioning, offline copy)

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