Backing up Academy computers

Backing up Academy computers

In the event of a computer crashing or a threat of a crash, it's important to store files in Drive primarily rather than locally in the event of data loss. 

Use Drive for Desktop by

  1. Clicking the carrot icon in the bottom right of your screen, or search for it in Start
  2. Sign in with work email and password
  3. Go to File Explorer and in the left side menu find the (G:) Drive

  4. In My Drive create a folder "Backup (Month/year)" and store all local files by dragging and dropping items into the folder created
  5. Find files you wish to keep safe in Documents, Downloads, Desktop, etc. that are important to you 


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