I lost several months of work to a Windows re-install. How can I keep this from happening again?

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  • git

    A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches. (by git-for-windows)

    As others have said version control is your answer. I use git and I run completely independent of GitHub. I have a raspberry pi server that I have setup as my own remote. So I can work on my code on any computer, commit and push it to my server then I can pull it down on another machine and they will be perfectly in sync. This also means you will have multiple copies of the code, so if one computer gets wiped out, your remote (server) and other machines will still have mostly up to date copies of the code. If you push and pull code frequently the most work you lose is a day or so. If a laptop and a server go down, you have local a copy on your other machines. This setup has saved my butt dozens of times.

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