How can a small accounting practice back up their data on a budget?

Backing up your practice data is essential. Loss of data can cause irreparable damage to a small accounting practice.  The rule of thumb is always triple backup. Save to your computer, the cloud, and an external hard drive.

• Here is a tutorial on how to automate your PC backups.
• Here is a tutorial on how to automate backups to an external hard drive.
• You can also use free third-party software to regularly clone your entire hard drive onto an external hard drive. You could then restore all data, programs, settings should you need to. This is just one example of cloning software, there are many on the market. Some free, some paid.
• You should also backup your data to the cloud. Here are 3 cloud options for accounting practices to back up their data for as little as $24.99 per year (or free for under 15 gigabytes)

1. Microsoft OneDrive
   How to instructions
   https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/onedrive?ui=en-us&rs=en-au&ad=au.
2. Dropbox
   How to instructions
   https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/sync-uploads/computer-backup
3. Google Drive
   How to instructions
   https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2424384?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en