Have you backed up your work?

by Adrian Sroka
6th February 2014

What precautions have you taken?

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External hard drive baby! And then a memory stick. I even have a floppy lying around here somewhere.

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Caitlin White
07/02/2014

I'm also someone who relies on e-mailing my stuff to myself, if not my friends.

I don't have my own computer, and work alternatively on my grandmother's and my mum's, so it's just saved on my grandmother's pendrive. (I asked for a pendrive for my birthday... STILL haven't got it! :/ )

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07/02/2014

I lost one of my books half way through and only had a much earlier edit of it. The thing is though that the one I lost had been reformatted in a way that just wasn't going to do it any favours so in a way it was lucky that I was forced to go back to the drawing board and start again. I don't think it would have worked so well in the orignal format and I know that I wouldn't have had the guts to scrap a whole 4 mths work.

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