Gentle reminder: Do not post your only copy of original work here

[Jay Dougherty]

This probably goes out mainly to the writers, since visual artists would have to post representations of originals here.

But please do not use this site—or any site—as a word processor. Keep your originals on your home computer or someplace that comes w/ a service level agreement that relates to data retention and access. I personally wouldn't even trust Google Docs or another such service with the only copies of my work.

 

[silent lotus]

i rotate one of my 3 backup hard drives at home every few months---with one that i keep in a Bank Safety Deposit Box
to protect my wife's art and my scribbles

i had a friend who lost all his original animation films
when his house was broken into

and an other friend who had the bad luck of having had fires
in two different buildings years apart , where her atelier was

i once had the good fortune to miss a deadline to send my lithos for a print exhibition in a museum in Portugal .....a few weeks later that building burned down

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[Jay Dougherty]

i had a friend who lost all his original animation films
when his house was broken into

and an other friend who had the bad luck of having had fires
in two different buildings years apart , where her atelier was

We probably all either have these experiences ourselves or know someone who has. I have a sister who lost years worth of priceless pictures not once but twice—because she had no backup.