I prefer doing some backups manually and automating others. I usually manually backup my projects/files on a flash stick/external hdd/NAS/dropbox. I don't have

I prefer doing some backups manually and automating others. I usually manually backup my projects/files on a flash stick/external hdd/NAS/dropbox. I don't have anything against CVS - I regularly use git and svn. Given git's snapshot based model, I think if it's on git it's probably not neccessary to create snapshots and storing them (rar/tarballs etc.). In terms of environment, I prefer to create a folder and store installers and patches (ex. environment/dev, environment/install) - specifically the most recent ones. A lot of devs I know prefer to doing their development on virtual machines and backing up the entire VM (think isolated dev environment). I personally, find it too slow. I prefer having everything I need available in order to do a fresh install if required (some other OSes tend to optimize for current hardware during installation).