when's the last time you ran a backup
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@cwebber my backups are so secure by not existing 🤞
@cwebber This week, but only because my laptop's charging port started acting up as of late and I had to copy everything before the computer dies
@cwebber you're lacking the never option 😌
@cwebber a backup? This week. Testing a restore? Oh god oh god oh god
@cwebber ambiguous wording do you mean made a backup or tested a backup? and automated backing up happens multiple times a day so also not really answer that fits if that is what your asking
@cwebber where is the "today" option?
@cwebber My backups run continuously for the offsite set and nightly for the local set.
@cwebber This week, automatically every day. Then the disk died. Fortunately it also uploads backups to cloud storage.
But not the old backups from decades ago :😭️
@cwebber I always stop just in time thank gawd for cameras.
Normally daily. Because once upon a time, I was responsible for a tech support team, and I cannot/will not skip backups of my important business and personal data. And because I still find myself needing to help people during times of potential personal technical catastrophe, and asking, “when was your last backup?”…only to be met by either a) a blank stare, b) a sheepish shrug, or c) ALL the physical signs sheer panic.
My stuff's already in the cloud, so the only things I have to worry about are that 13th 9 and account deletion.
@cwebber I would like to vote for both "today" and "oh god oh god oh god oh god". My automated backups have run overnight, but there's definitely random stuff lying around that I need to get added to the automatic backups!
@cwebber 4x daily backups of my OS user profile on continual rotation. Daily backups of my user profile to a day named folder which results in continual weekly rotation and then a monthly full disk backup of my C drive with several years of monthly points. I backup my data drives to multiple different NAS devices and also if more normal times did an off-site dump of my profile and family photo drives to a HDD swapped semi regularly to a safety deposit box.
@cwebber full backup? Only done that once. Used it right away.
Backup of my important files? That happens immediately when I change those files. Need an off site addition though. Still trying to figure out how I want to do that.
@cwebber After putting it off for weeks, I finally ran a backup on teh day this poll closed.