Re: Scheduled Backup Jobs in OSX?

In article <46b83ea9$0$24759$da0feed9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, PaulS
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On 2007-08-06 23:42:39 +0100, Elliott Roper <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> said:
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I've just given that a go and it seems to work fine, thanks.

One question though - if I backup my Home folder and everything in it,
is there anything else I should be backing up from outside of this? My
Home folder seems to contain all my documents, Safari bookmarks, Mail,
etc. I just want to make sure there's nothing outside of this that I
should be backing up too.

Opinions vary.
I back up less than that. I leave out music and movies because they are
too big. I back them up by hand as and when.

If you manage a lot of fonts in /Library/Fonts you might want to
include that.

If you have chosen to put personal valuable stuff in other than Home,
then obviously you should include that in your backup plan.

You might have some software that gives you the chance to store
important personal stuff elsewhere. Aperture and iPhoto Libraries for
example. You will know where those are, and you may choose to add them
to your plan.

Some people would supplement incremental backups like this with a clone
of their whole system disk.(SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner) If it is
important you get going quickly after a major disaster, that is a good
idea. I have so few major disasters, and because I'm so averse to
creating one for test purposes, that I'm resigned to re-installing all
my software when the whole machine dies. I rationalise this laziness as
creating an opportunity to remove swarf.

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