My whole client list almost got deleted because of a bad backup

I mean, it was Tuesday morning and I went to update my customer spreadsheet, which I keep in a simple file. I accidentally hit delete instead of save, and the file just vanished. I tried to get it back from my cloud backup, but the last backup was from two weeks ago, so I would have lost a ton of new leads. I spent the next four hours manually rebuilding it from old emails and texts. Has anyone else had a close call like this and found a better way to handle backups automatically?

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faith_palmer5114d agoMost Upvoted

Honestly, what are you using for your cloud backup?

the_tyler14d ago

Oh man, I just switched to Backblaze last year after my old service messed up a big restore. It's been totally solid so far, and the price is way less painful. I used to get so stressed about whether my files were actually safe, you know? Now it just runs in the background and I forget about it, which is the whole point.