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I back up personal files...
Interchangeable parts won't.
Daily (Score:5, Informative)
daily ... (Score:4, Informative)
My backup runs every night, using cron, rsync and some shell scripts, based on http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ [mikerubel.org]. It writes all data on my server (mails, home directories, SVN repositiory, database, ...) to an external disk (eSATA). Hardlinks over 10 file trees for 10 days allow me to restore deleted or modified files for up to 10 days. Average backup time is less than 1 hour after the initial backup (that runs for several hours).
Workstations and laptops contain the operating systems (can be re-installed from CD/DVD/PXE), files copied from the server (local copies of mails, SVN sandboxes, ...), and some temporary files not worth to be backed up. So, I don't need to backup those machines.
Tux2000