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As an additional backup medium, CDs and DVDs are still an easy, cheap and highly durable option. As a secondary, or tertiary backup, these durable forms of media can last many, many years. The USB drives you can attach to computers can be purchased cheaply as well.

Nothing can give a user more peace of mind than multiple backups across different forms of media. Mailing a trusted party a disc, or dropping it off with them during the holiday season is an easy way to achieve piece of mind.

In training, we learned the 3-2-1 Rule, which states the following:

There should be 3 copies of data

On 2 different media

With 1 copy being off-site