[Hidden-tech] Retrieve data on external hard drive

[Tom Novelli]

Yep, proper backup *and recovery testing* is important. It costs time and
money up front, but it has a much better chance of working!

Online backup is fine, but ONLY for small-ish amounts of non-sensitive
data.  The encryption that cloud services advertise is very sketchy.  For
large/sensitive data, I like to backup to at least 2 external drives.  Keep
one in another location at all times.  For sensitive data, TrueCrypt seems
to be the best answer.  Being open source it's less vulnerable to
backdoors, and it's free and runs on every major OS which is eliminates two
potential hurdles to recovery.

Every month or so, you need to A) test your recovery process to be sure
your backups actually work, and B) make an archival backup that you can go
back to if you discover that some important old files have been corrupted,
accidentally deleted, etc.  There's no one-size-fits-all solution - it
really depends on the nature of your work.
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