My main workstation crashed right before a big deadline

It was last Thursday, about an hour before I had to send the final shop drawings for a big apartment job. The whole thing just froze, then went to a blue screen. I had to pull the old files from the server backup, but I lost about two hours of my last check. Had to call the client and push the deadline, which felt awful. Anyone have a good backup routine that runs without you even thinking about it?

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simonb921h ago

Man, that's brutal timing. I get why you'd want a set-it-and-forget-it backup, but I've never trusted those to catch everything. My routine is manual because I've been burned before. Every single day at 4 PM, I copy my active project folder to an external drive on my desk. It takes two minutes and I do it while I'm packing up. Seeing the file transfer happen is the only way I know it's done right.

sammoore1h ago

Every single day? That's some serious dedication, man.