OT: How Often Do You Back Up Your Files

[Thermodyne]

Weekly full backups and incremental (changed/unmarked) daily. And now and again I’ll burn a full to DVD set. I was using tape, but recently I moved to an IDE backup solution. I was testing/debugging it for a client, and it was so fast and so easy that I kept the test rig for myself. IDE drives are dirt cheap right now. I back up system state to CD and store that out in the garage with the DVDs. And I burn the Ghost Cast images to CD sets and keep them in the garage too. All workstations use home folders on the file server, so other than an occasional GC, I don’t worry with the workstations.

If it’s other people’s money, then I push SCSI raid 5’s and big tape. But for me, IDE is cheaper and faster.