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Okay, disaster almost struck yesterday.  I had an open (refillable) bottle of water on my desk at school yesterday when the phone rang.  I run across the room to get it (school doesn’t start until Tuesday for us, so no learners in the room) and I bump my desk.

Can you see where this is going?  Laptop open on desk, turned on, water on desk, …. yup.  Water in laptop.  Fbomb dropped.  Thank goodness no kids in the room.

And guess what, the last time I backed up was in June.  I have done so much work over the summer on my laptop, and I almost lost all of it.  And I HAVE a good backup strategy.  I use SyncBack every week to backup my laptop to an external hard drive.

At school, I use it daily to backup my networked H drive, my desktop folder where I save all docs to, and my active flash drive to a 2 gig flash drive.  This software has options to do all of this automatically, with no input from me what so ever.  At 3:15, every day, all of my files at school are automatically backed up.

My laptop, however is manual.

Guess where my system failed?  I was not at school every week, so I stopped the manual backup of my laptop on the weekend. That is one of the big dark secrets of being a plugged in teacher. If WE don’t actively back up our files, we can lose everything in the blink of an eye.

I recommend Syncback.  It is easy, fast, and fairly idiot proof.  But, you have to use it.