Backups? 🛟

[candycanearter07]

Simple: i create copies of my home folder and put them unto my 1Tb external drive using BackInTime, scheduled to happen everyday at 12 am, i've also set it up to only hold 4 copies at a time to prevent it from overfilling the drive, i should probably start backing up my site too, never know if servers keep being up or not for you to access your files

i do something kinda similar except i just copy all the files from root into a 1tb harddrive bc my computer only has some 256gb total and also i only store 2 or 3 of em

[Dan Q]

I have a lot of stuff, spread across a variety of different computers and my phone.

So I use Syncthing (free, open-source, runs on almost anything) to "sync" all of my important files to just one computer: my NAS, "Fox", with 96TB of HDDs in (72TB usable).

And then I have a subscription to CrashPlan, who allow unlimited backup space because they charge per computer, not per gigabyte. And I only have one "computer" (it's just one with massive hard drives that all of my others back up to!).

I'm investigating other options, though, and I'm not opposed to paying per-gigabyte. A few hosting companies have Amazon-S3-compatible storage now (so it's possible to use the standard tools to sync with them) but cheaper prices (especially if you're willing to say "if I need to restore a backup, I don't mind paying you to get the tapes from the shed and that taking a couple of hours"), so I'm considering that.