There are several issues that we all know about as they can happen to even the best of us. Needless to say, some of these incidents are completely out of our control and are OS and application related. We can be faced with losing a day's worth of work due to, for example, the infamous blue screen or an unexpected quit by an application.
The moral of the story is that while one cannot be too careful about each and every detail, unexpected issues still happen in "real time"! Given that all scientific practices, methods, precautions, and regular practice of backing up of all work done are tediously followed, there is always one major cause of havoc that cannot always be avoided; in one word, what an "upgrade" can do to your otherwise functioning system!
In this chapter, we will see how to avoid the following real-time issues.