Ahem A Rivet's Shot  wrote:
> On 14 Jan 2021 11:43:24 GMT
> TimS  wrote:
>
> > Disk space may be cheap, but then you have to manage it. And remember -
> > if you make backup/restore complicated then noddy users won't do it.
>
>         You can make it as easy as you like and they still won't.

So you make it automatic.  I backup my wife's laptop with incremental
backups, she doesn't have to do anything, any time her laptop is
connected to our LAN overnight (quite often) it gets backed up to the
NAS in the garage.  It works just the same for my systems (desktop,
laptop, pi server), they get backed up automatically every night.  I'm
far to lazy to actually do any backups that require action on my part
(and I suspect most people are the same).

Since they're incremental backups they don't eat space very fast, my
8TB NAS disk is only 5% full since moving to it from a 3TB one.  The
3TB one was about 5 years old (backups back to 2015) and was 50% full,
though that wasn't *all* incremnentals.

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Chris Green
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