Big companies spend a huge amount of money and effort on back ups and protections. The cloud is about the easiest, safest way to back up your work. Google Drive and Dropbox are both cloud services. “The Cloud” includes many options, including some household names.
Or at an even more basic level, storing stuff on someone else’s computer. “The Cloud” is really just a fancy way to say storing stuff on the internet. It’s the best, easiest way to ensure the safety of your work. Many of my writer friends, being luddites, fear the cloud. I don’t think the zombie apocalypse will happen, but a natural disaster or war could turn you into a refugee. My paranoia for back ups does include thinking about a major disaster. There might be beta readers, um, I mean survivors inside.Īnd I’m only half joking. That means printed on paper for the younger writers. There are three common places to store your back up: There are are many options for both where to make your back up, what to back up and how. Remember the writer who ran back into his burning house to rescue his laptop. I don’t care if a burglar runs off with my TV or whatever other valuables they can find in the front room, but don’t dare take my stories! It was that my laptop was in the front room. But the first thought I had was not about my own safety. If you are thinking about doing a back up of your work, do it. If you think about the game, you lost the game. If you don’t know the game, do yourself a favor and don’t start.
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