I almost had a minor heart attack. I was working on my chapter, when all of a sudden my computer changed to that dreaded blue screen. I restarted once, and the same screen came on again. I started to panic, thinking that everything on my laptop was lost, including all of my dissertation work. Thankfully, Byron walked me through starting it up again on the phone, and after a second try, it was back to normal. The first thing I did was backup my "My Documents" folder. I've been really lazy about backing up, but I am vowing to do it once a month from now on. I do backup individual word documents on my gmail, but only the "big" ones, like a draft of a chapter, not my notes or annotations or even updated versions of my cv.

Anyone have ideas on how to backup most efficiently, i.e. is there any way for me to backup each month and for the CDR to know which are the new documents, so that it can just add those instead of me backing up everything all at once? Also, can this same thing apply for pictures?