Comments on: What do you backup?

By: Jeff Garbers

Jeff Garbers — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:47:07 +0000

Not sure if anyone’s still following this thread, but I’d suggest that JungleDisk support the Mac Backup.app “quick picks” — named sets of directories that users frequently need to back up. Otherwise, people need to know where important things like emails, address book entries, and iCal appointments are stored, and those locations aren’t obvious.

By: Jeffrey Smith

Jeffrey Smith — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:38:10 +0000

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.

By: Tim Read

Tim Read — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:46:30 +0000

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.

By: David Underhill

David Underhill — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:23:17 +0000

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.

By: myuserid

myuserid — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:05:01 +0000

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.