Public Service Announcement

[thewhitelily]

Back up your data, my sweets.

If you lost your main storage of your most precious data right this minute, how much could you reconstruct?  No really, how much would be just gone?  Poof!  It could happen to you! Or anyone! Even me!

In related news, after a very stressful day, I think I have managed to miraculously piece together MOST of the family photos from the last year that I accidentally permanently deleted.  While trying to back them up.  *headdesk*

Back up your data, ok? Carefully.

Comments

[mafief]

EEP!!!
Can relate and it's one of the worst feelings! We save everything on the cloud now because of incidents with my research and needing to keep data and writing for projects safe.

[thewhitelily]

Yeah, this was unfortunately a human error problem--I thought I was copying files when in fact I cut them, and then put the 'copy' in the wrong place and immediately deleted it. AAAAAARGH. Humans are humans.

I had an incident where my honours thesis document became corrupted, and I've been slightly neurotic about document backups since then. Family photos... we've been meaning to get around to. *facepalm*