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Backing up your work before you need to

Suspended accounts, platforms shutting down, lost files: the three-copy rule, applied to a creator.

The editorial team · 10 avril 2026 · 5 min read

An account can get suspended by mistake, a platform can shut down, a drive can fail. All three happen, and never at a convenient time.

The three-copy rule

Three copies of every file that matters.
On two different types of storage.
With one copy kept off-site.

Three copies, two kinds of storage, one copy kept elsewhere.

For a creator, in practice that means: source files on your own machine, a copy on an external drive, a copy with a host. And an export of your member list, redone every month.

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