My home backup strategy, part 1: the basics

1 · Christian Specht · Nov. 1, 2015, 5:50 p.m.
Years ago, before NAS drives and cloud services were common, I had one single desktop computer and all my data was on its C: drive. Even though I was already working in IT for years then (including being responsible for database backups, and earlier, tape drive backups) I never thought about backing up my computer at home. Until the day when it refused to boot. I don’t remember the exact cause anymore, just that in the end, it was no big deal to get it to work again. But at that moment (before I...