Michael Shore

The importance of backups Backups are important. No matter what kind of data you are storing, chances are you will want to have it backed up somewhere. Some data is inconvenient to lose, and some data is devastating to lose. If you have data of any real importance, it should be properly backed up. Hardware can last a long time, but one failure can leave you in quite a predicament....

Forewarning I made some mistakes, and those mistakes cost me fair bit of time. This is not a guide! This is my experiences migrating from local file storage to a cloud provider, and the issues and solution I came across along the way. At the end of the post, I have linked a few guides relating to this topic, refer to those for your how-to guides. With that out of the way, let us begin....