What do you do for backups?

[tim]

I pose my sempiternal question: how do people back up their computers these days? Now that I have a Mac, I just let Time Machine do its thing. But what if my office catches on fire while my laptop and the backup drive are both in it? Should I have bigger priorities in that case?

Do you use network backups? If so, where do you get your 80 GB of online storage?

Helpful suggestions always appreciated.

Comments

[etb]

Get a second backup drive, unless you can easily identify ≤4 GB of critical data and burn that to a DVD.

[arjache.livejournal.com]

My current solution:

1) Priority stuff gets backed up instantly on Dropbox. For a while I was using their free account (2GB) and only backing up creative output; then I decided I liked the service enough to pay for 50GB and start backing up all my music as well.
2) Creative output is also automatically backed up on a hosted server as part of the Makefile targets I use to publish comics, sketches, etc.
3) Phone contacts are automatically synced to AddressBook nightly via bluetooth/applescript and then backed up via DropBox.
4) Bookmarks are backed up via Xmarks.
5) Entire system is backed up to Time Machine whenever I remember to plug in the firewire disk.
6) Periodically I will also make a bootable backup using SuperDuper so if my hard disk dies I can simply clone back to a new one and then bring it up to date from the other backups.

This isn't a perfect system - I still want to add automated backups for email and LJ, and I haven't actually needed to use it yet. But I'm pretty happy with it.

[photonsrain.livejournal.com]

I hear https://spideroak.com/ is pretty awesome and relatively cheap.

[ewx]

Time Machine to an external disk for Macs, and hbackup over the network to an external disk attached to the house server for everything else. My backups come to around 360GB which would take around 3 months to upload if I were to back up over the internet.