If you’ve accidentally deleted or misplaced a financial document, you already understand the importance of backing up your important files. However, saving your financial documents to an external hard drive is only part of the battle. To truly safeguard your documents, try to keep them saved in at least three places. This could include your computer, an external hard drive, or a cloud service of your choice. This way, if your local storage, such as your computer or hard drive, is damaged, you can restore your files using the cloud. Saving your files this way is perfect when your computer or external storage are both damaged by a power surge, malware, or a computer virus.1