One of the best feelings in my career I’ve ever had is when I was doing part-time work for a small company — handling their networking, infrastructure, and all tech-related stuff outside of programming.

The owner called me up in a panic saying the company would probably have to cease operations because all their data was completely gone, encrypted by ransomware. The owner was taken aback when I laughed and said I’d have them back up in a couple of hours, max.

And I did have them back to full operations around two hours later. If in my field you do not have great backups, you have nothing. And my backup game is beyond solid. I will never lose your data if you put me in charge of it, or allow it to be lost.

It’s just not gonna happen.