Tip of the week: Back up your photos, contacts and business files

Phones get lost, dropped in water or stolen. Without a backup, years of customer contacts, product photos and records vanish in a moment.

Choose a simple routine:

• Turn on automatic backup for contacts, either to your email account or the phone's cloud service
• Back up photos and videos to an online album or a second device
• Copy important documents, like registration papers and price lists, to cloud storage or a memory stick
• Keep one copy away from the shop

Check weekly that backups work. Open the backup on another device or look at the online folder to confirm your files are there.

A bakery in Moshi with hundreds of cake photos and customer orders in her phone should not trust a single device.

Protect backups with a strong password and two-step login too.

Delete unneeded files before backing up to save space and bundles. Backing up on Wi-Fi saves data costs.

Teach staff to save files into the shared folder rather than only on their phones.

This week: back up your contacts and photos, and check that you can open them from another device.