Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> For a home setup, I would suggest that RAID is way overkill, and a 
> simple offline backup now and then is what you actually want.

The problem with this is that it's easy to forget or to just be lazy and
procrastinate (until the day that your HD breaks.)

The best option would be to use an external storage device and an automatic
backupping program. This way you always have a very recent backup without
having to do anything.

Apple's Time Machine is an excellent idea (it automatically backs up your
data incrementally at certain intervals, and it has a GUI that makes it
very easy to restore any file), but I wonder if there are any programs for
other systems that would do the same.

The most typical backup program for other systems is something that you
have to run manually, and most often than not with a horrible nightmare
of a user interface. (For example you wouldn't believe how complicated
it is to restore one single file with OpenSuse's system backup utility.
Something that takes like 5 seconds with Time Machine can take at minimum
5 minutes with OpenSuse's system backup, often more. And of course it's
in no way automatic.)

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