Backup and recovery

[Jean-David Beyer]

On 12/18/2015 04:30 PM, Dorel Ciornei wrote:

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I do a full backup of almost my entire system every night to an external
USB-3 hard drive. I do a full backup of almost my entire system every
week onto magnetic tape that I keep in another room from where my
computer is. I do a full backup of almost my entire system every week
onto magnetic tape that I keep in my safe deposit box at my bank.

This way I do not need to wonder how to back up my gnucash, my programs,
my web browser cache and bookmarks, my TaxAct data, my ... ...

And I can go back to any day in the current month and the previous
month, any week in the previous several months, and any month in the
previous year.

My main failure mode is fat fingers, but I had a hard drive fail once.
It was probably about 10 years old, running 24/7. Fat fingers are much
more frequent. I used to screw up a few times a year like that, but
lately, I have been more careful.

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