Being a Mac guy, I use "Time Machine". I do test it every once
in a while when I recover a file, but having been in the
computer industry for my career, I am generally careful enough
that I don't have to recover files. (Knock on wood.)
I have the largest disk I could find at Costco as a backup disk
sitting on my desk.
The real test comes when I buy an new computer and restore the
entire backup to the new machine. That has worked through
several new computers. The one time it didn't work, the old
backup was so many no-longer-supported levels back, that the new
machine didn't recognize it. However, with Time Machine, if you
open the backup folder on the backup disk, you can dig down to a
complete file system image that can just be copied. I like
backup systems that are simple and don't try to do irreversible magic.
The other dimension of backup is several offsite disks. One is
at a house nearby, and another is on the other coast. Whenever I
travel to those locations, I make a backup. If everthing here
goes up in smoke, I do have some recourse.
73 Bill AE6JV
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