Before Disaster Strikes…
Most people wait until after they have a disaster to think about a decent backup strategy. Considering the cost of permanently losing your work — both the time lost and the money spent recovering what you can recover — you’d think people would be a bit more proactive about this… but I suppose that a disaster is a great teacher.
So what kind of backup strategy should you have?
Start with this assumption: your work space is going to be leveled one day by a fire/flood/earthquake/hurricane/tornado/iceberg. Or your computers are going to get stolen. You want to be able to recover from this in a reasonable amount of time (say, a week, since you’ll need to get new hardware).
Second assumption: you are going to change files regularly throughout the day and want to back those files up at least once a day.
Third assumption: if you have a project-level screw-up, you want to be able to recover any files you lose within a few minutes. Read more…
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