How often do you run backups on your system? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 year ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Basically title. I'm in the process of setting up a proper backup for my configured containers on Unraid and I'm wondering how often I should run my backup script. Right now, I have a cron job set to run on Monday and Friday nights, is this too frequent? Whats your schedule and do you strictly backup your appdata (container configs), or is there other data you include in your backups?

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[-] thejml@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I just tell it to back up my laptops every hour anyway. If it’s not on, it just doesn’t happen, but it’s generally on enough to capture what I need.

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