This has probably happened to all of us at one time or another: We were working on something, and then suddenly something happened and we lost our work. Even worse, we didn’t have a backup copy so we had to start from scratch. To put it simply, this sucks. Now usually this is something that is specific to us, such as a single spreadsheet or word document. While hard to replace, it doesn’t always have major repercussions. However, what would happen if your whole office had this problem? Or you lost the major database for your project? This would be disastrous, and this is where backing up your work really counts.

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