Best Practices

We offer the following principles as guidance only. It's how we treat our own data and feel that it works well for us.


Cloudery is a back up storage solution. Cloudery should not be a single source of your data. You should always have multiple copies of your most meaningful and important files. Natural disasters and other attacks can occur and although we have a disaster recovery plan, it is always wise to have your data replicated in multiple locations across the planet. Always assume your hard disk drives are going to break down imminently.

Make sure you're in the acceptable or best category below:

Alarming
  • All of your files stored only on your computer.
Risky
  • All of your files stored on your computer.
  • A copy of all of your important files on a cloud storage solution, such as Cloudery.
Acceptable
  • All of your files stored on your computer.
  • All of your files duplicated on offline storage devices such as external hard drives and stored securely on your premesis.
  • All of your important files stored on a cloud storage solution, such as Cloudery.
Best
  • None of your files stored directly on your computer.
  • Day to day files stored in an online service, such as Onedrive.
  • All of your files duplicated on offline storage devices such as external hard drives and stored securely on your premesis.
  • Copies of all of your important files stored on multiple cloud storage solutions, preferably on different parts of the globe.