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| Posted: 10:50pm 10 Apr 2018 |
On the backup thing, I also backup my code(anything important, really) in a triple-redundant fashion. One local copy, one on a backup medium(USB drive), and one copy to the cloud(Dropbox). I also backup to my file-server. The idea being that if the main machine dies in a very bad way such that the HDD can't be read, I can suck a copy from the USB drive or the file-server. If something catastrophic was to happen(fire/flood/tornado etc), once home has been re-established, I can then suck a copy from the cloud.
No-one wants to re-do hours, perhaps months of work.....
I learnt this from my Sister years ago when we were teenagers. She was writing her thesis(in those days on a DOS laptop), and the HDD died. I had tried to tell her to backup her work(on floppy disk in those days), but she refused to do it: 'It's saved on the f-ing computer!' My sister and I did NOT like each other in those days(punches had been thrown by me, and sharp finger-nails slashed by her), but to see how upset she was when the laptop died and she lost EVERYTHING...... I would not wish that on anyone. The laptop internal PSU died, and it cooked the mainboard and the HDD too. Not good.
To cut a long story short, what I am saying is that when it comes to backups, it's probably a good idea to do them manually rather the relying on any kind of automated process. Once you get it in your head, it is only a few right-click-paste operations in Windows Explorer to various locations. This post has become longer then I planned.....
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