[Wildfire]

Backups are a rather important part of my computing ecosystem, I still back up to DVD monthly. Got me thinking, how many of you actually do backups? It's crucial, but your backups must be kept secure as well. I actually encrypted a few of my backups a few years ago, but now lost the keys.

So, the questions:
-Do you keep backups?
-If yes, to what medium?
-What do you elect to backup?

My answer:

Yes, I keep backups.

I backup to DVD-R DL.

I backup everything that I cannot replace online.
This includes: Screenshots from ShareX, configurations I have made, all or most of my code, pictures from my various cameras, my KeePass database (I actually back it up to a separate CD as well) and any important text documents.

[ChaosAgentGG]

Im a crazy son of a bitch and dont backup... Needless to say when my pc takes a dump, which is rare... its a huge one lmao. Probably should, if I were to Id definitely only have an extra hard drive to back up onto

[Bish0pQ]

I have different hard drives. It also depends on the type of file. I'm not uploading illegal content/files to online storage facilities. I keep all those things on external hard drives (all disconnected from the internet). I have somekind of a server like storage box, where each hard drive is labeled and sorted on older or newer data. I have a spare thin client which I use to manage these hard drives and if needed a simple fileserver (for like hard drives with movies).

Also, data like my websites or tools or whatever, I store all of those on DVD-R (as back-up). Since it's much easier to label it than to use an USB.

[mothered]

Given my daily computational tasks, backups are performed each and every day locally on several external HDDs.

I have redundant backups on 3 externals. I simply cannot afford loss of data due to corruption or otherwise.

[Skullmeat]

I keep backups now. I learned the hard way what happens when you don't.

[Altair]

I keep backups on my external drive, also storage on clouds too.

[mothered]

I keep backups now. I learned the hard way what happens when you don't.

Same here.

At one point many years ago, I didn't perform a backup (from one external to the next) for a number of weeks and my main external caved In, therefore I lost Irreplaceable data. Since then, daily redundant backups have been part of my computing regime.

[Ex094]

Yes, I keep backups of my important data on the cloud and on a separate drive because you never know when you get struck by a disaster

[Mr.Kurd]

Yes, I keep backups of my important data and my windows drivers.

[Wildfire]

Yes, I keep backups of my important data and my windows drivers.

Why back up your drivers? I personally have a policy of only backing up the data I consider irreplaceable. Drivers seem pretty replaceable.