Back up your data. Multiple times, multiple places.

That’s a lesson that I should have learned multiple times, but keep failing to absorb. Maybe if I tell it to other people, I’ll hear it myself.

I’ve been trying to recover as much as possible of what was on the laptop that was stolen two weeks ago. A lot of things are just gone. Some were things that I created, so in theory I can create them again. Other things weren’t, and I have no way of recovering them.

So for now, I’m doing redundant backups to an external hard drive, one with a “cloning” program, one with a backup program. I want to get additional backups going to our server at work, just for safety’s sake.

Knowing me, I’ll be diligent about this for a while, then slowly slack off. Until I lose data again.

Or maybe, just maybe, I’ve learned my lesson this time.

How about you? Are you protecting your data? Any particular scheme for that that might be of use to the rest of us?