lecture06: Backups and Revision Control

Topics covered

• Data storage requirements
• The scary stories
• Backups
• Backup models
• External hard-drive
• Cloud storage: e.g. Dropbox
• Collaborative writing
• Collaborative writing models
• Revision (or version) control
• Git instructions
• GitHub \url{https://github.com/}
• Why not Dropbox + git?
• Collaborative writing
• Summary
• Assignment %
• More on security