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Chapter 9. Tip 9: Back Up Your Files

Threat Type: Software based, victim enabled

Examples of Threats:

• A computer virus destroying or corrupting several of your files

• Failure of your computer hard drive

• Inadvertently deleting a file or folder

Our Tips:

• Back up the data on your computer periodically.

• Store files in your computer under a common file folder (with subfolders, of course) to make it easy to identify your information from the operating system and program files.

Backing up your files is not so much a security measure as it is a good policy against losing important files in the event that you are the victim of a virus or other ...