I’ve asked around and there are three camps when it comes to backups and disaster recovery:

1. Even my bookmarks are on a RAID with off-site backup
2. Yeah I keep meaning to get around to that
3. What’s disaster recovery?

Most people coming to freelance/self employment will be coming from an employed background. I.e. They’ve had a company surrounding them which provides more then a few creature comforts, one of which was most probably an IT department which looked after things such as network file stores, Internet access and backups.

However now you are on your own.

If you fall into camp 1 in the list above, then pat yourself on the back and go take a look at something else for a bit. If you don’t fall into camp 1, then read on, as you need to get seriously worried about your recovery plans.

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