How often do you backup?

[viking60]

We all know that backup is for cowards and I read that 90 % of private users don't do any backup at all. That is because backup is to complicated,
So just to check your courage; How often do you back up? And how?

[rolf]

It varies, about once a month, maybe twice. I will think about something new in my personal files that I wouldn't be so happy to lose due to a hard drive fatal crash, and run the script:

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for i in `cat rolf.backup`; do rsync -avz --delete --exclude 'default/kykd3xj8.slt/Cache' --exclude 'seamonkey/w1o08opq.default/Cache' --exclude 'lan/handycam' $i /backup/rolf/; done

Where rolf.backup is a text file with a list of all the files to backup. I don't think I have those --exclude statements in proper syntax. There always seem to be Cache files getting backed up, I notice. That's not too important.

On my desk, there is a nice aluminum enclosure with a 1 TB Seagate ST31000528AS inside for a few years, now. I like my Icy Dock



It can connect with usb or firewire and I happen to have firewire on the mobo, it's supposed to be a little faster, so I use that. When I flip the power switch, 'tailf /var/log/messages' shows me the proper device for the hard drive partition where the backup is stored. This, I mount on /backup then run the script. When it's done, I unmount the partition and flip off the power switch, until the next time I'm motivated to save some data.

[viking60]

Have you tried --exclude-from instead of --exclude?
In the killer backup tool

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--exclude-from 'ex.txt'

does work well and ex.txt is a file that contains anything we want to exclude.
In my case ex.txt contains:

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*/.cache

among other entries, and ex.txt is placed in ~/

[dedanna1029]

How often do you backup?

Only when I need to do a reinstall (mostly because I just don't care or have the time).