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Backup
- Having a Backup- Good advice on the the technology and the recovery front submitted by skinnyninja... Promoted to the front page because pounding the pavement and other vigorous physical activities are great therapy and recovery tools Someone else had posted about having a backup, so I wanted to comment on that. They were talking about two kinds of backup and drawing an analogy: backing up your computer, and being prepared for things to happen in your recovery. As a student and a computer geek, I usually have a couple of computers, at least one desktop and one laptop, and I also have all sorts of those little thumb drives and portable hard drives and whatnot. And none of it matters one bit--all of my computers and storage devices could go up in flames tonight and I would have no worries, even though I just finished writing a 10 page report for Microeconomics and haven't printed it out or handed it in yet. Why is that? Because everything that is important to me is backed up ONLINE. I write my homework in Gmail (where it autosaves every three seconds) and then send it to my Yahoo mail when I'm done. It is now backed up on both Google's and Yahoo's servers. I'd say that is pretty secure. I can't believe these people who use client based emails where it all downloads to their hard drive and then they have to store it on their own hardware. Go WEB-BASED people. The cost of storage is either free or becoming free, take your pick. The other backup emergency plan was for recovery, and man did I need mine recently. Just five days ago I went through a somewhat traumatic breakup, called my sponsor....got nothing. Called another friend in recovery....got nothing. So what did I do? I hit the pavement. Started jogging. Now, normally I jog six or seven miles, but I was totally freaking out, so I ended up going twelve miles. When I got done, I was feeling a lot better already, and I had burned off a ton of anxiety and frustration. Also, my sponsor had returned my call and was now available to talk, so it just seemed like my little exercise diversion did a great job of....well....diverting me. It certainly worked in this case as a "recovery backup plan."
