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. Search for Drive in Start
  2. Click the application
    1. Nothing should happen, check your File Explorer to view the Drive on the left hand side menu
  3. If prompted sign in with work email and password
  4. Go to File Explorer and in the left side menu find the (G:) Drive

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


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