Carrington Event Shield

If a nascent colony world can be wiped out by a geomagnetic storm on a scale similar to the Carrington Event, what could the colonists build either in space or on planet to protect their electronics from being ruined and stymying their development?

Would a space based magnetic shield work or a large mirror? According to this article, the vanguard of the Carrington event arrived within an hour, while the peak intensity took 17 hours to arrive. I add this detail because you may not want to keep the shield always directly between you and the star, since it may block the light? You could use mirrors to get around this but it might be simpler to have the shield as a movable device.

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