Best way to make sure that I don't lose everything

Had a close call with a blue screen a week ago (Unmountable boot volume), and it got me to thinking about losing my half-finished project. Any great ways to back up your work as you go? External hard drive, syncing it to the cloud, etc? Just trying to find a decent way to do it. Anything that would automatically do it is great.

 

How large is the project, hard drive space wise?

 

Dropbox is your friend.

External HD isn't a terrible idea either. Just keep your projects there. Then your comp can crash all it wants. You just unplug and continue on a different computer.

 

2 words: Version control.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Version+Control

Keep your code/assets in a secure place, and track all changes made to it, in case you need to revert back.

 

There are a few services that will back up all of your files to the cloud routinely (like an online version of OS X's Time Machine). One that comes to mind is Carbonite.

 

I use Mozy for an online disaster recovery backup - that is my computer completely crashes or the house burns down etc. On top of that I have two USB keys with encryption, plus a portable HDD. But also I'm constantly zipping up entire copies of my project folder, like almost after every session (I just add the date to the end of the file name). Once I've gone to Mozy to recover a prefab I completely messed up and then "applied". Many times i've gone back to a previous day's zip file and pulled out an old copy of a script. You can't really have too many backups! Don't rely on a single backup either!

 

I have a mac and use TimeMachine as a regular backup option for local backups. Then I periodically move copies of all my projects to dropbox for offsite back up.

 

Around 600 megs, as of now

 

if it's that small then you could just get a USB Flash Drive.