Photography I / Managing, Selecting and Sequencing Images
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Which are true of the 3-2-1 backup rule?

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  1. Three of the statements are the rule; one invents a fourth requirement.
  2. The numbers stand for copies, media types and locations.
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  • A. It calls for at least one copy to be held in a different place
  • B. It calls for the copies to sit on at least two different kinds of media
  • D. It calls for three copies of the material in total
Why

The fourth is not part of it. The rule is deliberately about physical redundancy rather than software: two copies on the same disc array share a failure, and two copies in the same building share a fire. The offsite copy is the one people skip and the one that saves the archive.

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