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WanderingEng · 3396 days ago · link · · parent · post: Dear hubski, when was the last time you backed up your important data?
I back up every few days. I have a Mac, and Time Machine in OS X makes it so easy. I actually take it a little further and have a second backup I keep at my desk at work to reduce the chance of catastrophic loss. I update that weekly. I started backing up with no horror story but did have the practice reinforced when a hard shutdown caused some data corruption. I suspect my laptop battery was failing and it stopped without warning. Restarting, programs would crash and hang up. I had a full backup only three days old and had lost nothing of significance.