What if your computer were lost?
The other evening, after backing up the day’s work onto my flash drive, I realized it had been a week since I’d backed up my files onto my external hard drive. I should know better. You can’t have too many backups.
Decades ago, a co-worked told me a wildfire had once claimed his magazine’s office. In those days, before desktop computers, cloud storage was not even a dream. The only surviving files were the ones he and his colleagues had carried in their briefcases.
I thought of that in recent months as I watched reports of homes destroyed by wildfires in California and a hurricane in Florida. For writers in those regions, files not backed up offsite were lost.
May that never happen to you. But if it does, I hope you were prepared.
If your writing files are important, make backups. Then back up those backups.
