Always make a backup

In fact, make more than one

Debbie Ridpath OhiJul 21, 2026

Cartoon of a stricken-looking person kneeling on the floor with scattered printed pages in the midst of cleaning a guinea pig cage. Nearby,  a tiny cute guinea pig chews on a carrot A speech bubble from off-camera says, “HON? HAVE YOU SEEN MY PAGE EDITS?” Comic by Debbie Ridpath Ohi.

I'm lucky that I have a technonerdboy husband who has set everything up for me. We use Backblaze, Carbon Copy Cloner (to a portable external drive), and Time Machine. I also manually make backups of certain files, like my Obsidian vaults.

How about you?


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