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Today I came across this article. When a thief takes your dissertation

This was a nice reminder why I should back up my computer all the time – even at this very moment.

This also reminded me of what made me start backing up.

I used to proudly say, “I have a degree in Electronic commerce. I know one or two about computer.”

One day, boom! My laptop died. My poor Sony Vaio that was probably being abused just stopped working. I lost almost everything. I had backed up only ONCE while I had that computer. I was able to recover only a fraction of what I had.

So I got a new laptop. A nice macbook. I spent more than half of what was in my bank account for that laptop. I saved all my recovered files onto the new machine.

Seven days later, yes, seven DAYS later, I spilt coffee on the new laptop. Of course, I hadn’t backed up again.  Seriously, how many laptops should I go through to learn the lessons? I guess I finally learned the lesson. Now, I’m RELIGIOUSLY backing up. I use extra HDD, Dropbox, AND Backblaze. And no more liquids near my machine!

So those who are writing your dissertation, thesis, papers, etc. (and really everyone who owns a computer), if you haven’t been backing up, learn from my mistakes and go back up now! =)