Have you backed up your work?

by Adrian Sroka
6th February 2014

What precautions have you taken?

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Guess Debbie and I think alike in this respect that is emailing our work to ourselves. Chuckle...chuckle... However, I don't save it in a pendrive. Too much of a hassle to save my stuff in three places - email inbox, desktop & pendrive.

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I usually back up my work by sending a copy of what I have done to my own email inbox. If there are changes to be made, I would make them and email the ammended copy to my email inbox again. Will of course delete the previous email so as to avoid clogging up the inbox.

I find it easier this way as wherever I go I can always open up my inbox and continue my writing without having to worry as to whether I've brought my pendrive along etc. A lazy way perhaps considering that I'm pretty lazy at the thought of taking out my pendrive and save a copy of my work as a back up.

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I keep mine on a pen drive and back up by emailing it to myself.

I do keep copies on my laptop too.

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