I'd like to think we've developed tools that could aid us in somewhat determining most likely future potentials for something similar, but something also tells me we prolly laid off the more prominent scientists necessary for such tasks...

Apologies for stirring fears folks---love the ones you're with

It's not just your files, although backing them up is important. If we get hit by another Carrington event it will quite possibly fry a lot of electronics.

I have a very rudimental Faraday Cage setup for this scenario. It's just a steel bucket with a steel lid that's lined on the inside with cardboard, and with aluminum foil on the outside to seal off the joins. But if I get notice that such an event is about to hit I'll be throwing some critical smaller electronics (notable a raspberry pi and a mini monitor), cables, and a mini solar panel+plus inverter into it (along with my backup device) and sealing it up with more aluminum tape.