But what if one of these services failed and lost your data?
Isn’t My Cloud Data Safe?
Your emails are probably safer in Gmail or Outlook.com than they are on your hard drive.
Service providers generally back up your data to multiple locations.
But you shouldn’t ignore backups entirely just because your data is in the cloud.
Having a local backup is still a smart idea.
Some services my not allow you to export your data.
If nothing else, having local backups of your most important data can give you some peace of mind.
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