[DeepDuh]

It feels strange to me that so far only one commenter here (ok, he's at the top now) has identified where the main mistake seems to be:

A SYNCHED COPY IS NOT A BACKUP.

This includes:

- git

- svn

- Dropbox

- RAID (of any kind)

If you don't believe this, please reconcile everything you've learned about backups. More specifically, if you treat any VCS or dropbox as your only backup system, STOP RIGHT NOW and at least get something that's intended to be a backup, such as SpiderOak in backup mode.