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# Verify Your Backups
- URL: https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/verify-your-backups/
- Published: 2015-02-17T18:29:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-02-17T18:29:00.000Z
- Author: CJ Chilvers
- Tags: photography, paper

Since we store almost everything digitally now, we need to remember, **there is no digital archival format**. Paper backups are best (think books), but digital backups are crucial and those backups are only as good as the last time you checked them for errors:

> “Take a few minutes to identify some critical files and see if you can restore them successfully from your backups.”