ABSTRACT
Almost everyone has had the experience of having written some really excellent work, and then had some terrible technology malfunction meaning that they lose everything. Some ‘failure to backup’ stories are truly horrific. At the time of writing, it is very easy to keep copies of documents in the Cloud, or even write straight into the cloud. A really good option is to start working in one of the Open Science platforms. Backup is a separate operation where we store files. While computers are good for computation, they are frail and much more likely to suffer from catastrophic failures. If we are going to be doing lots of field work, then we might want to make a specific plan about backing up data to the cloud during field time.
