Chapter 12

Educating Users about Backing Up Data

In This Chapter

arrow Backing up data from a mobile device

arrow Restoring data from a mobile device backup

arrow Transferring data from one mobile device to another

Just as we detail in Chapter 11, there are practical things you must tell your employees about mobile device security. In this chapter, we give you information that you can readily pass along to users, written at their level. Check the facts because some of the procedures may have changed since the writing of this book, but use the material in this chapter to show users what to do to back up, restore, and transfer data.

Smartphones, tablets, iPads, and other portable devices that work along similar lines are increasingly vital to our daily lives. On these devices reside plenty of vital personal and corporate data, including e-mails, SMS messages, contacts, call logs, photos, and videos. Anyone who has lost or misplaced a smartphone can vouch for the fact that losing such a device causes a lot of angst, especially if the device’s contents aren’t backed up to a computer or other storage device.

This chapter looks at the types of data that users need to back up from their mobile devices and ...

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