For my thesis, each chapter was a separate LaTeX file, with one master index file that pulled it all together. I didn't use version control then and in retrospe

For my thesis, each chapter was a separate LaTeX file, with one master index file that pulled it all together. I didn't use version control then and in retrospect, perhaps I should have. One thing I did that saved my a: daily backups. My hard disk actually died 3 days before my deadline. These days I would also use Dropbox.