Raspberry Pi is pretty resilient hardware in most respects, with one exception being the SD card.
The SD card is being written to constantly by the operating system, and if you power up the device
down or interrupt it, why it's writing or indeed you leave it running for a very long time, for six
months or so.
Those SD cards do corrupt.
And on that point, you've got to start building your environment.
So my advice is always be careful that you shut down the Raspberry Pi properly.
The command sudo power off is best way of doing that and always back up your work and keep a copy of
it somewhere else that is safe.
You can set up a Raspberry Pi to boot from a USB drive.
And I do that for some of my production Raspberry Pi that run 24-7 USB SSD drives.
I've now become quite cheap, especially in small sizes like 64GB.
And that's exactly what I use to run my service.
This also gives them an improved performance as the right times, much faster.
We've already touched on backing up your work.
How can you do that?
Well, one way is that you can copy your project data onto a nice drive network attached storage.
So a local cloud storage, if you like or you can sing the files across on your laptop.
There are things software running the ball that will actually copy and make sure that both your Raspberry
Pi and your laptop are in sync with those files.
Of course, you could also copy those onto the cloud.
All of those options are available and think through how you want to work in your environment.