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On Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 7:40 PM Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > I am a Linux user, so maybe not so relevant. > > I back up the home directory and email inbox directory on my laptop, > and the home directories of my wife's computer. I also have a > development system that I don't back up at all, aside from a Windows > virtual machine that I backup occasionally (every six months or so). > > Everything else, include an area of disk space called "scratch" is not > backed up. > > When considering where to put stuff when downloading or creating it, I > think carefully about whether this data is "temporary", and not to be > backed up, or something I still want around in the event of > catastrophe, and place it appropriately. > > I back up my laptop daily via a manually launched script to a portable > USD hard drive. I have a second USB hard drive plugged into my TV, and > copies of photos/videos go there as well. My wife's computer has an > inbuilt secondary harddrive, and backups happen automatically via a > schedule (ie crontab entry). > > Finally, every six months or so, I do a full backup onto another hard > drive (I have a bunch of SATA harddrives ripped out of the old tower > system when it was decommissioned), and a cheap USB adaptor. These I > place under the house in what is hopefully a fireproof chamber. > > So far so good. I've had a handful of "catastrophes", and not lost > data yet. The worst was when my wife's IMap email system got corrupted > losing 2 weeks of email. I was able to reciver these byrequesting > backup copies from gmail, but it is so painful that I've added a daily > backup of her IMap account to my laptop backup script. > > Cheers > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 12:48:51PM -0700, Gillian Densmore wrote: > > > > Greetings! > > I are on windows 11 have have a lot of questions on backing up hard > drives apps > > and basically many years of digital hoarding to be > significantly cheaper and > > more doable than if: > > at the moment if I were to make a clone it'd be 2 external USb drives > (4 tbs) > > and then 2 more internal drives (5 tbs each) > > I know I don't care about anywhere near all that. So if ya'all can nicely > > brainstorm with me: > > 1- > > Backingup what's important (if anything) > > 2: then also having external electronics for: just temporary storage > *jack > > sparrow and cheesy movies from Tubi, what ever games I'm actively > playing (if > > any) etc > > > > Where do I even start? is this a NAS thing? how do folks back up apps, > games, > > and the Jack Sparrow specials? (if any) cheesy movies from tubi, and > stable > > diffusion interests (currently) is decent amount. > > > > Happy Holidays, and thanks a ton in advance! > > > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. > / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] > http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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