"Buy the best technology based tools and backup devices you can afford. So much can fail: old technology might still work but it will bite you in the arse and possibly destroy many months of hard work when it has a technical or software upgrade incompatibility; Automatically back up in as many different places as you can, cloud storage is great but you still need an air-gapped, non-internet based automatic backup. Please listen to me, I learned the hard way loosing 6 months of digital artwork and educational assignment work due to basic operating system upgrade that repeatedly froze my computer, after 3 software rebuilds, I had to just abandon the device and buy a new one."