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Most users don't have an automated process that regularly performs full backups of their hard drive, so reinstalling the OS is painful. Hopefully software will
by sskates 15y ago
Most users don't have an automated process that regularly performs full backups of their hard drive, so reinstalling the OS is painful. Hopefully software will solve this problem permanently for us in the near future. Until then it will be too much of a bother for most users to set up an automated full backup process.
Even as a software developer who's familiar with technology, I don't do full hard disk backups for my personal machines. It's just too much of a pain, and I've decided to take it as an acceptable risk.
- Zirro 15y agoI've been using http://www.backblaze.com http://www.backblaze.com for a while now and it's worked great so far. It's not a full hard disk backup, but essentially everything non-system.
- mike-cardwell 15y agoIt's not as much of a pain as you think. I just drop a couple of lines in a cron job and that gives me full disk, incremental, encrypted backups: https://grepular.com/Secure_Free_Incremental_and_Instant_Backups_for_Linux https://grepular.com/Secure_Free_Incremental_and_Instant_Bac...
- sskates 15y agoThis might be a shocker, but my personal machines run Windows. Anyone familiar with a simple automated full disk backup tool for Windows?
- cryptoz 15y agoOh come on. You're clearly not "most users" if you can just set up cron jobs. It's important for us to remember who most users are and that they are not us.
- mike-cardwell 15y agoObviously. I was addressing his second paragraph; offering personal advice to him and anyone else here who might be interested.