Getting started 4: Set up a backup place

# Getting started 4: Set up a backup place

This step is optional, and we recommend it. A computer can be lost or break. A backup in another place gets your books back.

Choose a place

1. Open the menu with your name, then choose Health and recovery.
2. Open Off-site backups and choose Add a place: an external drive, a network folder or a cloud-drive folder.
3. Choose how many daily, weekly and monthly copies to keep.

The app can test-restore the newest copy and warns you when the last good copy is old.

Make your recovery kit

1. In Health and recovery, open Recovery kit and choose Make my recovery kit.
2. Write down the 24 words, or print the kit page. They are shown once.
3. Type back the words you are asked for, then choose Switch the kit on.

Keep the words away from this computer. Nobody can recover them for you.

Pop Vault (optional)

Pop Vault keeps the newest copies of each company online at vault.thepopstreet.com. Every backup is locked on your computer first, so nobody at Pop Street can read it. First year free with a paid license, then $29 a year (regional prices apply) at [thepopstreet.com/account/backups](https://thepopstreet.com/account/backups). To restore on a new computer you sign in with your account email and a 6-digit code, then unlock with your 24 words, or with a Vault password if you set one. Turn it on under Backups, in the Pop Vault tab.

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