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Creative people have Giant Piles of Data

Uniterruptable Power Supply (UPS)

1. What is the power draw of your devices? This will inform the battery size you choose.
2. Does the UPS have a data port, and is your device compatible? This will allow the UPS to gracefully shut down your machine.

3-2-1 Rule

Have 3 copies of your data, on two local devices, and a third offsite.

RAID

Random Array of Independant Disks. RAID 1 is simple mirroring. Other RAID flavors allow you to distribute multiple copies of data across mulitple disks, so any one disk failure shouldn't kill your data.