Back-Up Scares

About a week ago, I opened up my Scrivener document on my primary computer, expecting to see the changes I'd made the night previous on my laptop. I looked at my Dropbox file, and according to them, everything was synced nice and proper, but my changes were nowhere to be seen.

Ohhkay, I closed out of the document went to my laptop and opened the file. I got the rainbow circle of death (the equivalent to the spinning circle on Windows if you're not familiar) and Scrivener crashed. I re-opened, and my changes were gone again. Cue: freak-out.

I looked about how to find it, and came to the conclusion that I didn't give Scrivener time to open before letting Dropbox sync. It was my bad. I decided to just cut my losses and try to re-write. I recreated the file, and I KID YOU NOT, the words just magically appeared again, as though my fairy writing godmother appeared over my shoulder and recreated the words for me.

After reading Scrivener's guidelines for using Dropbox, I hope that nothing like this will happen to me again, but since it was so stressful, I've decided to add an additional back-up to my cadre, an Open Office doc where I'll cut and paste the entire novel every couple of days. An unnecessary step? Yeah, probably, but it would save future freak-outs.

Do you have any back-up horror stories?