World Backup Day

How and why is this a real thing? Who cares. You better back your shit up. Often.
If I ever write a book on BIM and/or ArchiCAD you better believe there’ll be a chapter on Data Safety.

I’ve got some strong thoughts

Enjoy this infographic from the guys organizing World Backup Day. Infographics in general make me tired, but this one is concise and full of good info about the big points regarding data safety. Read it.

For my backup needs, I am a huge fan of Carbonite. Try it yourself. Everything on my laptop is completely safe, backed-up and accessible even if my computer gets destroyed, lost, or eaten by a dinosaur. So as long as I back up all my other crap to my Mac Book Pro, I’m good.

2014 World Backup Day Update: Carbonite and the cloud in general saved my ass a few months after I wrote this post. Read the story of how Carbonite and all my cloud data kept me calm in August 2013 when my computer shit the farm. Stupid graphics card making my laptop useless.

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