I learned my lesson once, back in my University days, I was doing a law essay in English (Greek is my mother tongue so definitely not easy) , I was working for hours , back then microsoft word had no auto save, forgot to save, accidentally close the window , bye bye work. That was 1999-2000. Suffice to say that I was typing like insane few hours before submitting my work. It was not just that I would fail my course  (just a single subject of it) if I did not submit but I would get only 50% grade cause English unis dont allows you to get more if you redo an essay, exam whatever. So really bad experience.
From there on , all is online baby. Me and the Internet are closest friends. Time machine is a recent friend, I am already using DropBox for my law documents (microsoft word), MediaFire for my big files , soundclick for the music I compose and souncloud. Code has been before smalltalk that I was doing python only github and now for pharo smalltalkhub. So I rarely keep things locally, of course with time machine I have covered that corner too. Â Â
On Friday, 18 October 2013, 8:34, Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name> wrote: Am 17.10.2013 um 23:10 schrieb Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>: so backup your machine⦠because mine was still working at 8h this morning and 8h40 dropped dead
Really strange to see that people _know_ things can break but they wonder if their own stuff breaks _all of a sudden_. :) For Mac users there are two really good options. One is using timemachine and the other is using Arq[1] that makes timemachine like backups on amazon S3. Works like a charm from wherever you are. For both options you need to spend money. But it is nothing compared to the pain of loosing all your data. Really! If you don't want to spend money or don't have a mac you can still make backups to another computer using rsync. You'll find plenty of articles if you search the net for rsync and backup. Norbert [1] http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ [2] http://rsync.samba.org/