Very simple 'backup' is to email it to yourself. Ofc it's not a legit backup, but a Word file, even if it's 500 pages, won't take so much space. Pendrive/USB p

Very simple 'backup' is to email it to yourself. Ofc it's not a legit backup, but a Word file, even if it's 500 pages, won't take so much space. Pendrive/USB ports may be locked. But you can always zip & email the very critical doc/xls files. This was you can also have 'versioning'. Something that I assume people do, is journaling. So even if you DID lose 1-2-3 months worth of work (in academia) you can read your (handwritten) notes and will save a lot of time from remembering the key points, key resources, etc. Either way, whoever wanted to wipe a couple of computers and managed to push the script to the full AD group.. I got no words. Article doesn't mention what OS they were sitting on, but I will go ahead and assume it's Windows, on an Active Directory, and the admin pushed the new 'think' to the wrong OU.