Letting Go

[Anthony G Williams]

I'm sure we've all learned about the importance of backing up the hard way (I know I did!).

I have two hard drives on my PC, and back-up whatever I'm doing to the spare at the end of each session. I also back-up the work to a USB memory stick, and occasionally download the contents of that to a separate notebook PC to ensure that it mirrors what's on my desktop. Finally, I burn a CD of my backup files every now and then. I think that covers just about every eventuality except that of my house burning down...

[jenna]

I have become somewhat back-up obsessed now! I keep 2 copies of my work on USB keys (what I have left...), one is either at home or with me, wherever my computer is NOT, and the other is in my letterbox. That is because my letterbox is right down the other end of my apartment complex, so even if my apartment burns down, god forbid, then it should stay relatively safe. Unless we get hit by some sort of asteroid or beam from an alien space ship, in which case I don't think my writing will be my first priority anyway
If there's one thing the whole bag-theft fiasco (or theft-gate as I call it) has taught me, it's to be super super paranoid about losing my intellectual property, which after all is the most valuable property there is...

[Hilarious Joke]

Don't chuck your work!

A message from HJ.

[TheEndIsNigh]

Originally Posted by Anthony G Williams

I'm sure we've all learned about the importance of backing up the hard way (I know I did!).

I have two hard drives on my PC, and back-up whatever I'm doing to the spare at the end of each session. I also back-up the work to a USB memory stick, and occasionally download the contents of that to a separate notebook PC to ensure that it mirrors what's on my desktop. Finally, I burn a CD of my backup files every now and then. I think that covers just about every eventuality except that of my house burning down...

I see your just paying at the backup thing.

Surely you have a shed or a garden.

An important tip here is to leave a map for future generations to use to find your 'Gems' or 'Peices of Eight'. Or you could just paint a big yellow cross on the lawn being sure to bury the 'golden disks' under the shed.

[Hilarious Joke]

Tee hee!

I like to get the most important sections of my work tattooed on my buttocks, for the ultimate back up.

[glandowski]

Considering it 'making room' for those ideas to come to you - my best ideas come to me when I drop things for a few and go for a walk to the drinking fountain...

Best of Luck!