Backup, Version Control, and Comparing Your Work

Ever get a few hundred pages into a novel and have the hard drive crash, and you never made a backup? Ever wish you could take a look at the previous version? A writer must (I said must, not should) continually make backup copies of their work, and save versions of it as they make changes, so they can go back to an older version. The backups should be made not only to an external drive, but to the cloud, as well. Writers also need to be able to compare one version to another to see what has c...