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How do you all go about backing up your data, on Linux?
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Anything important I keep in my Dropbox folder, so then I have a copy on my desktop, laptop, and in the cloud.
When I turn off my desktop, I use restic to backup my Dropbox folder to a local external hard drive, and then restic runs again to back up to Wasabi which is a storage service like amazon's S3.
Same exact process for when I turn off my laptop.. except sometimes I don't have my laptop external hd plugged in so that gets skipped.
So that's three local copies, two local backups, and two remote backup storage locations. Not bad.
Changes I might make:
I used seafile for a long time but I couldn't keep it up so I switched to Dropbox.
Advice, thoughts welcome.
I actually move my Documents, Pictures and other important folders inside my Dropbox folder and symlink them back to their original locations
This gives me the same Docs, Pics, etc. folders synced on every computer.