User blog comment:SpaceWeather/Hey I'm Back... But Why Was I Gone?/@comment-1874924-20140325004503

It's good to have you back, although I'm sorry to hear about the circumstances of your absence. I'm just now starting to get into reading again, and Relocated was in my queue. While you might be able to rewrite the lost chapters, they'd surely be different from what you had before. You can't rewrite a novel from scratch and expect it be exactly the same.

The way I guard against disasters like this is to make offsite backups, which you can do for free. I have e-mail accounts with multiple carriers, so I periodically send e-mails from one of my accounts to another, with my story files attached. That way, I have offsite backups on two different servers.