Making backups

[Pushrod]

I was hoping that the forums had the poll feature, but no problem, we can just type it out. :e

The question is: How good are you about making backups of your data?

- Excellent: everything is backed up regularly, and there are multiple copies. Some copies are kept off-site.

- Very good: most things are backed up regularly, and there are multiple copies.

- Good: the essentials are backed up, but there is only one copy.

- Fair: Some stuff gets backed up whenever I remember to.

- Poor: I live life on the edge and hope that I never make a typo on the command line or have a hardware failure.

 

[danger@]

We actually have a poll feature, but only mods and admins can add/edit ones I've added one for you.

 

[Pushrod]

Great, thank you very much.

 

[fronclynne]

It's Old Thread Sunday!

# tar -jcf /home/backups/hostname_date.tar.bz2 /etc /var

Don't have enough space right now to backup all the movies and music.

 

[respite]

Ive been backing up just my /home and /etc with a daily rsync cronjob. After my last disk failure I decided I rather not waste time rebuilding a home system again. Using FreeBSD raid1.

 

[phoenix]

Are we talking for home systems, or for work systems?

I'm assuming home systems, so that's how I answered.