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Backup and recovery services

Backup and recovery services

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Backup and recovery services

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- [Instructor] Cloud-based backup and recovery services are a variety of services that exist to provide redundant storage for files and data in case of data loss through accidental, malicious, or true disasters. For example, you may be leveraging a public cloud file sharing services not only to share files, but to backup files as well. Perhaps these types of services have been a huge help when your laptop or mobile phone is lost, destroyed, or stolen. While these are traumatic events, even more traumatic would be losing all of your current and existing documents, audio files, pictures, and other content that cannot be easily replaced. Cloud-based backup and recovery services remove much of the risk from you for a very little expense. Of course, these services vary a great deal in the types of services that they offer, but the focus is on data and files. We'll just focus on files now. In many instances, public file…

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