[finneganscat]

You do have another choice: backup your important data, at least daily!

[nomel]

What's old is new, I suppose.

This is one of the reasons the cloud storage services became so popular. Properly backing up data, with multiple backups, not all piled in the flood prone corner of a closet, is not fun.

[pixl97]

Which can be very difficult, on the road where you have low bandwidth especially.

[cassianoleal]

It's really not hard to carry an external drive. Even tiny thumb drives have massive capacities these days.

Edit: typo