Recovery
Backup
In Turkish: Yedek (yedekleme)
A second copy of what you cannot afford to lose, kept somewhere that a single accident cannot reach.
Phones get lost, laptops fail, accounts get locked and ransomware encrypts files. A backup is what turns each of these from a disaster into an afternoon of annoyance.
A copy that sits next to the original, or that is always connected to it, can be lost or encrypted together with it. A good backup is separate, recent and tested by actually restoring something from it.
What to do
- List what you could not replace: photos, documents, work files, account recovery codes.
- Keep at least one copy somewhere else, and turn on automatic backup for the phone.
- Restore one file from the backup this month to prove that it works.