tarsnap for important stuff, local external disk for my entire machine (for fast recovery). I keep a copy of my tarsnap key in a different city. My local extern

tarsnap for important stuff, local external disk for my entire machine (for fast recovery). I keep a copy of my tarsnap key in a different city. My local external disk is de-duplicated with ddar (I wrote ddar). A bunch of scripts run before the tarsnap to pull in external data such as offlineimap for all my IMAP accounts (including Gmail) and a database dump from my blog.