PSA: Ph.D. candidates, don't do 5 years of research without backing up your data...

[Anonemous]

http://nj1015.com/rutgers-student-makes-interesting-offer-for-stolen-laptop/

 

[uclaLabrat]

Yeah, I emailed my dissertation to myself like 3 times a day when I was writing. Then copied it to a flash drive. Then burned it a few times, and stored a copy on my desktop.

 

[cronos]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2315840

 

[Anonemous]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2315840

whoops didn't see that nor did it come up in searches... mods have been notified to shut this down.

 

[Anonemous]

Yeah, I emailed my dissertation to myself like 3 times a day when I was writing. Then copied it to a flash drive. Then burned it a few times, and stored a copy on my desktop.

Yea, I keep hourly cloud backups of important data/docs/ppt in Dropbox/Skydrive along with weekly HDD backups ever since my SSD died 2-3x over a course of 6 months.

 

[Via]

prank, or simple-minded attempt to trap a thief.

 

[ManBearPig]

That's what amazing about this to me. I've never written anything as daunting as a dissertation, but anytime I've written any paper I've emailed it to myself and/or other people multiple times before and after I got done, either out of necessity or just to be able to access it easily from anywhere.