serious techie question(s):

[fox]

so two things have happened recently:

1.  a friend of mine lost almost an entire chapter of her dissertation in a freak reverting-overwriting incident.  (fortunately, it was the most recent thing she's been working on and she's been able to reconstruct it, so it hasn't knocked her too far back.)  she has now learned the virtue of Save As rather than simply Save, and is in good enough shape that this comic strip made her laugh rather than cry.

2.  various networking things have changed here, meaning we're all required to go get our computers checked out, registered, examined, and installed with some additional software and whatnot by the end of the month or we won't be able to get online on the college network at all.  my appointment is the day after tomorrow.  this would concern me a lot less if i hadn't heard that the IT guys had managed to -- in another overwriting mishap, but you'd think they'd know better -- completely delete something like three years' worth of one guy's files, in addition of course to all his settings etc.

with these things in mind, i'm about to go out and buy an external hard drive, but i also wonder what everyone thinks about remote backup.  recommendations, etc?  thankee.  :-)

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

that's what it was! they recreated (?) his profile and used the same name, which reset the profile, which wiped everything clean. everyone felt terrible, of course, because it's a terrible mistake, but also the guy hadn't. backed. anything. up. before. letting. them. mess. with. his. machine.

[axiom_of_stripe]

yeah, that would do it. *wince*

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

My Documents == evil.

As is HKEY_CURRENT_USER, but most people don't know about that ;-)