Share your method of backing up data

[syazhani]

Hello guys.

As programmers I'm sure a lot of us have a lot of data we'd like to not lose if HD fault or similar thing happens -- so share your way.

I use the came-with-distro-installation "tar" and store the backup in 2 different internal HDs (I have 3 total). I soon find it quite tedious to keep track of which files you want / no longer want to back up, and every time it takes a long time to archive.

I heard good things about "rdiff-backup" which perform backup only changes to files (very time saving) and considering to use it, but before that might want to know what others use. 

p/s: What is Incremental Backup?

[ih8censorship]

If were talking multiple machines rsync is nice.  If its something real important to me ill upload it someplace so it is physically away from me as well.

[Aseld]

I wrote a script which compresses a list of files and directories read in from a text file and uploads it to both my local fileserver and my webserver. Another script cleans up backup files created more than four weeks ago. Said scripts are run via cron job every day.

[Seismosaur]

If I want to back something up, I have three hard-drives (40gb) several memory sticks, and loads and loads of CD-RWs .

[ih8censorship]

Ya well i have a tape drive in one (dead) machine that i could stick in another (alive) machine. :p That would be pretty hardcore.

[zaqufant]

Depending on how much I care about it, I'll put it on a CD. Otherwise, my HD had better not crash. But, the real important stuff is on a CD somwhere, that I update on the occasion that I do a major change to it.