I have a 1TB external drive, and occasionally plug it in and run a script that calls `rdiff-backup --exclude-other-filesystems foo /mnt/backup/bar` for multiple values of foo and bar.
It's not complete enough that I could wipe my root partition, restore the backup and start running again, but I'm not going to lose anything important if my laptop gets stolen.
I don't use cloud backups, mostly out of laziness. (I would have to think about what is actually worth backing up, and organise things so that it's easy to back those things up and not other things.)
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I have a 1TB external drive, and occasionally plug it in and run a script that calls `rdiff-backup --exclude-other-filesystems foo /mnt/backup/bar` for multiple values of foo and bar.
It's not complete enough that I could wipe my root partition, restore the backup and start running again, but I'm not going to lose anything important if my laptop gets stolen.
I don't use cloud backups, mostly out of laziness. (I would have to think about what is actually worth backing up, and organise things so that it's easy to back those things up and not other things.)