What do you backup?
As we mentioned in the UI redesign blog post, the user interface for configuring automatic backups is getting a major overhaul in Jungle Disk 2.0.
One of the features in the new interface is a “quick picks” list of common folders that people might want to backup. You can still manually pick files and folders, but this list will help novice users who aren’t even sure what they should be backing up, and also help speed setup for experienced users as well. We’re in the process of compiling a list of these common folders on each platform. We’ve got the obvious ones (like My Documents on Windows), but we’d like to include as many application-specific folders as possible -things like your Firefox bookmarks or Quicken data files.
We’d like your help to fill out this list. Head over to this post in our feature requests forum, where we’ve posted the initial list of common folders. Is there anything you backup that isn’t on the list? If so, post a reply on that forum thread with the application and the location of the files. We’ll include the most popular ones in the final release.
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myuserid said,
March 18, 2008 @ 8:05 pm
I work with fonts a lot, and lots of people buy apps that install lots of fonts. Many people I’ve spoken with often seem to forget about that folder when backing up.
David Underhill said,
March 19, 2008 @ 12:23 am
I actually keep practically nothing in the default folders on my windows box; I keep photos on a separate drive from the OS, and use a sub-folder on the main drive to house most of personal files, though I’ll probably move them over to the separate hard drive at some point (since it that one is setup with RAID 1).
Anyway, on my linux box the home directory is the obvious place where the majority of my files are kept, but I’m a little more picky about what I care to back up there so the pre-built list wouldn’t help me too much I guess.
Tim Read said,
March 21, 2008 @ 6:46 am
Any chance of linking into Microsoft’s indexing function or such to discover folders that change content frequently for key files ( to avoid identifying caches or temporary folders ). This could give a user specific list of ‘hot’ folders to consider.
Personally I used jungle disk to back up key code files and documents. PC backup and system backup go else where.
Jeffrey Smith said,
March 30, 2008 @ 7:38 pm
What not to backup
Suggested “not to backup” expressions would be useful, so excluding tmp files, log files, cache files, … could be done with a checkbox rather than getting new users into crafting regular expressions.