Back Up Your Data!

Squirrels don’t talk much but have a lot to teach us about protecting our data. Their compulsive scatter hoarding behaviors don’t seem to accomplish much because they don’t, really. Their value is in what they prevent. Just as no squirrel ever went hungry for lack of midwinter snacks, so no one who keeps media discipline need ever sit alone with a blank stare for having lost all their data.

The bonus scripts included in this edition automate your scatter hoarding discipline by reducing it to a single command in a Terminal window any time you want to save off the files in one or more working folders — not only to your cloud account (optionally encrypted) but to each and every external storage device connected to your computer. Take one or two with you, leave another in the car and still more at home. You can access these folders on your cloud account from any mobile device just by downloading and unzipping the archive file. This gives you not just overwhelming data security but overwhelming convenience, efficiency and flexibility.

Be the squirrel who sees the Spring, the soldier who protects the battle plan, the accountant who never drops a digit, the code warrior who never gets hit by a major setback, the content creator who never loses an asset or the eBook author whose progress is only ever forward. Keep everything from your earliest digital creations to your financial databases to your latest hot projects safe from the ever-present spectre and yawning maw of Total Data Loss.

Back Up Your Data! lays it all out for you based on a lifetime of personal and industry experience.