# Principles
Back up everything. Preferably to the cloud and to a local disk. Automatically.
You should test restores, but you probably wont. Have two independent backup methods for every piece of data.
You should be able to be up and running to last day's backup within an hour or so.
# Personal
CrashPlan: I want to backup every version of every file on my local computer to a local disk and cloud storage.
SuperDuper: I also want to have bootable nightly images of my machine in case I need to restore immediately.
CloudPull: I want to have a local copy of any Google file I have (Docs, Gmail, Calendar)
IFTTT to DropBox: And whenever possible, I want to have a copy of any other cloud-based service (e.g., Instagram)
# Servers
Linode Backup: Turnkey and presumably the Linode folks are smarter than I am.
Duplicity to S3: In case Linode folks aren't that smart, I will have nightly backups of everything.
# Principles
Back up everything. Preferably to the cloud and to a local disk. Automatically.
You should test restores, but you probably wont. Have two independent backup methods for every piece of data.
You should be able to be up and running to last day's backup within an hour or so.
# Personal
CrashPlan: I want to backup every version of every file on my local computer to a local disk and cloud storage.
SuperDuper: I also want to have bootable nightly images of my machine in case I need to restore immediately.
CloudPull: I want to have a local copy of any Google file I have (Docs, Gmail, Calendar)
IFTTT to DropBox: And whenever possible, I want to have a copy of any other cloud-based service (e.g., Instagram)
# Servers
Linode Backup: Turnkey and presumably the Linode folks are smarter than I am.
Duplicity to S3: In case Linode folks aren't that smart, I will have nightly backups of everything.