It really depends on how valuable your information
is and how often you change it. OCB allows to create new backups
every minute as well as once a year! No matter what kind of work
you do - developer, web-designer or anything else - it is
recommended to have an external medium such as usb-flash-drive to
save a copy of your work at the end of each day. Here is a table
with common backup tasks:
|
What files to back up.
|
Recommended interval.
|
Recommended media.
|
| Common documents (texts, books, other personal
stuff). |
1-7 days. |
HDD + CD. |
| E-mail, Fidonet databases. |
1 day. |
HDD + LAN or FTP. |
| Commercial databases (customers databases, goods
databases, orders databases). |
1 hour - 1 day (depends on how often you change
them. |
HDD + LAN or FTP. |
| Developer's projects (delphi, c++ and other
files). |
30 minutes - 1 day (more copies are needed when you
want to be able to undo undesirable changes which you can make in
the code). |
Often: HDD.
Once a day: LAN or FTP. |
| Web designer, art designer work. |
1 day. |
HDD + CD. |
| CAD designer projects. |
3 hours - 1 day. |
HDD + CD. |
| Windows Registry |
1 day. |
HDD. |
| Software config files. |
7 days. |
HDD. |
| Internet Favorites and shortcuts. |
7 days. |
HDD. |
