Autosave is a very handy feature, available in Maya.
Autosave, its names says it all, it incrementally saves the file, by default it saves the file with a five-minute interval.
Debian 9.5 Stretch is the latest release, at the time of writing this post.
It is a tried and tested method, but I highly recommend taking snapshots and backup of your data, before proceeding with these sets of instructions.
Keeping things organized is key when it comes to working on a large project.
I was working with another Animation package on a big project that had many assets. All the assets where created according to the physical scale and built. The project had many scenes, I started organizing it by naming...