I'm sure Zero is right. Yet I realise how hard it is to discipline yourself to do back-ups properly. It is only because my computer holds two sorts of information that I could not - realistically - replace, and which I know I will be relying on in the future, that I make myself do the back-up every night, last thing, on a portable hard drive.
I'm talking about thousands of photos and also musical compositions, which are the fruit of many hundreds of hours' work and which will be assessed later for my MMus course. It was the reality of the possible loss of these (theft of computer, hard disk failure) that convinced me to do something.
Maybe if everyone thought hard about the consequences of data loss more of us would do the right thing.
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