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1-2 years |
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2-4 years |
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5-7 years |
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Forever. Hard disk space is cheap. |
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2 | 66.67% |
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Hugged your dog lately?
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![]() Just curious how long you guys keep your backup disk images. I've got about 5 years' worth and I need to free up some space on my NAS soon. |
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![]() I don't even do disk images anymore. Linux Mint comes with Timeshift. I just leave it at the default setting, which is an incremental back-up every week. And it keeps the last 3. And if that fails, I have install scripts that have a big chunk of my setup automated. So the only thing I need to make a point of backing up is my user data. I should probably have a better process for that. I still have a Windows install, but I don't use it enough to bother with backup images. |
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![]() I do the auto backup once a month and I keep 3 months. And I'm starting to think that is overkill. Installing a fresh Windows isn't that big of a deal for me. Plus I back all my important stuff up on the cloud and my server. That and all my games are on steam. Keeping a drive image is starting to become rather pointless these days. |
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One day at a time
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![]() I was thinking I was being irresponsible by only keeping the last image ![]() Then again my needs are pretty simple. |
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RGB mofo, do you have it!
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![]() I don’t backup. I have 8 HDDs with key folders repeated. Rest not sure what to use backups for? Which cloud service you gays using? |
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![]() Don't do disk images anymore, have my NAS and anything on there is mirrored so meh. All my systems could have the storage straight up and die and I wouldn't lose a thing. Cloud service I use Qnap Cloud for my NAS and it just backs up automatically so I don't have too worry.
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![]() I don't use disk images for my home PC's because I don't rebuild them that often and when I do, I find there's usually updated drivers, applications etc. so I end up installing all the software manually anyway so there's no saving with the image.
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![]() I don't either. All of my data is on a Synology with an external backup on a eSATA drive. The Windows OS itself is on a MDT image I tinkered to my liking. As John said, the few applications I use are updated frequently enough that I'll use the latest version available if I must reinstall.
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