A broken phone in Chiang Mai finally got me to back up my work properly

I was sitting in a cafe on Nimman Road about six months ago, trying to send a client file. My phone just died, a full black screen. I had all my current project notes and about two weeks of photos for a blog on it, with no cloud sync set up. I had to find a repair shop, wait three hours, and pay $80 just to get my data pulled off. The guy looked at me and said, 'You travel for work but keep everything on one thing?' That was the kick I needed. I set up automatic daily backups to two different services that same night. Now I don't even think about it. Has anyone else had a close call that finally made their system solid?

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william_smith27d ago

Man, that repair guy was right on the money...

the_elliot26d ago

Yeah, those guys see this stuff every day. Learned the hard way to save my work every ten minutes, no joke. Auto-save is good but a manual save to a flash drive is better. Lost a whole chapter once and never made that mistake again.

kareng2727d agoTop Commenter

My laptop died mid-thesis, so I feel that.