Identify where you have digital files
- Look through your Google Drive, are there any resumes, papers, spreadsheets, presentations, code, images, videos
or other digital documents?
Decide which files are important
- Pick the documents you feel are especially important.
- Are the final versions of documents important or do you want to keep drafts and revisions, too?
Organize the important files, make sure they are named something descriptive
- Make sure you can find them later.
- Give documents descriptive file names.
- Create a directory/folder structure on your storage media to organize the documents.
- Write a brief description (README) of the directory and the documents inside.
Make copies and store them in different places
- The 3-2-1 rule
- Make three copies
- Have at least two of the copies on two different types of storage media
- Keep one copy in a different location from where you live
