Digital Life Insurance: The Backup Manual
Field Guide · 5 Chapters · Read This Before You Need It
Incoming transmission
There are two kinds of people: those who have lost everything, and those who haven't yet. Franklin Green ran nine years of case files, configs, and contacts on a single unencrypted, unbacked-up laptop. One dropped coffee. Nine years. Gone.
Everyone plans to set up backups. Most just haven't gotten around to it yet. This is the most predictable, most preventable, and most common data catastrophe in IT — and it happens to professionals just as often as it happens to your aunt.
This manual teaches you the 3-2-1 rule, what actually happens when you delete a file (hint: it's still there, briefly), how cloud sync and cloud backup are dangerously different things, and what recovery actually looks like.
5 chapters. Set up a backup before you finish Chapter 1.
— Commander Shepard
