Moral of this story:
1) Always, always, always have backups.
2) If you do not host it yourself, on hardware you own and control, then you are at the mercy of the corporate overlord that does own and control the hardware you are borrowing.
1) Always, always, always have backups.
2) If you do not host it yourself, on hardware you own and control, then you are at the mercy of the corporate overlord that does own and control the hardware you are borrowing.
I feel for the guy, I do, since I have been there myself: I learned the hard way a few years back when my only drive died :(
I recently took stock of my backup situation and found it lacking so I changed it:
Working data on 2 x 3TB RAID1 WD Reds
Sync'd to my laptop via OneDrive (changing as I type this to Sync.com - getting rid of OneDrive)
Backups nightly to WD NAS downstairs
Monthly backups to USB drive that goes almost everywhere with me.
Not perfect as Sync.com is my only offsite but I am confident that anything short of a direct nuclear strike should be salvageable.
Edit: Clarity and formatting