Backups. How often?

[Klaidas]

Hello
So I'm interested.. how often do you do your backups? What sort of files do you backup? Where do you back the up?
I myself do a backups once a month for: photos, install files, my school/computer schoold work, /home, files on desktop and some misc data. I use DVDs

If I'm doing something important (like programming for my computer courses) I backup that important data daily to a USB memory stick

[towsonu2003]

Hello
So I'm interested.. how often do you do your backups? What sort of files do you backup? Where do you back the up?

I backup once a month /etc , /root , and /home to an external hard drive. Once every three months, I put everything to a DVD or two and a couple of CDs (harddrive is a harddrive, it's prone to failures) and shred the old DVDs and CDs.

If I add new pictures or important documents to my /home bf the backup time, I just put them to my backup out of my monthly schedule.

[Getwild2]

I also backup quarterly to an external USB HDD. All documents, music, source files, other, etc. Need to start B/U to DVD but I havent yet.

[xtacocorex]

I have a script I use to back up /home / and /opt to tar.gz files. I only do /opt because I have programs installed there that aren't distro dependent and it's a pain to reinstall them.

I put them on an external harddrive and then cd's.

I used to do them more frequently, but I need to work through the script to fix some stuff and figure out why my computer wants to shutdown when I run it.

Once I perfect it and maybe test it since I've never had to recover from a backup, I'll post it on here as a how-to or something.

[YourSurrogateGod]

Monthly or when I make a big enough change to the code that I write.

[cbudden]

When I buy a USB HDD i'll backup .

[BWF89]

I backup my important files to my 1GB Flash Drive usually once a week. Files I backup are:

-School papers
-Firefox settings, bookmarks, and a screenshot of all my extensions
-DOOM demo for Windows
-Every Issue of Free Software Magazine (incase im somewhere and need something to read)
-Cool pictures saved from the internet
-Various cool videos from the internet

[G Morgan]

I voted other. I make backups as I do the work. First onto USB-MS then onto a CD/DVD when theres enough junk. This is messy but requires less thought on my part.

[?????]

I backup files on my Windows partition weekly and on my Ubuntu partition I'm thinking about every 2 weeks (I'm new to Ubuntu and linux, converted last week)

I would usually backup online (in a Gmail account for just file storage and not email), and for the large files, I would backup to a CD-RW.

[23meg]

Weekly for regular data, and more often (manual) for sensitive data and work in progress.