Cheap Backups for Writers

I believe that there is a law in the universe for backups: frequency is directly proportional to data loss, i.e., about the only time you really get serious about doing backups is when you’ve had a crash and lose your files. Or, to put the less negative spin on it, the more often you do a backup, the less data you lose. You know it. I know it. It is a law after all. We’ll call it the Universal Backup Law. [...]