Blue Screen of Death

Back up before the crash, not after

A stylized illustration of a blue error screen

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A hard drive failure or a crash you can't recover from is only a disaster if the only copy of your data was on that one device. Keep an automatic, working backup — ideally in two places, one of them offline or off-site — and actually test restoring from it once, because a backup you've never tested is just a hope.

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