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It is really important to also have off-site backups, preferably in another country, even better in multiple other countries. There are many services that make this easy, most particularly very cheap cloud servers, but also do not forget friends who also want to do the same -- an exchange, anyone? This can also be a manual operation, but I would really recommend a little more effort here because large file transfers over great distances can actually take quite a long time and are good candidates for automation. I currently use two pieces of software (one would be enough) to sync multiple gigabytes of files to multiple servers around the world (and in my house, and to the house of at least one friend!):\n\nResilio (formerly Bittorrent) Sync[2] is probably a bit easier to setup and use, but is not Open Source and the free version is a bit crippled. But for simple setups, it will probably work fine.\n\nSyncthing[3] is fully Open Source, probably does not work quite as reliably as Resilio Sync, but is under heavy development and there is no paywall. And Scaleway, for instance, offers Syncthing[4] servers right out-of-the-box.\n\nBoth of these are peer-to-peer file sharing applications that (routers and network willing) can potentially sync directly between your and your friend's house, no servers required. Also, being peer-to-peer, there are no size limits. I not only use these for off-site backups, but also within my house to share many tens of gigabytes (video and photo collections, etc.) of files between multiple devices, including Androids. Very, very handy, no going back to manual file copying once you have tried them. Like Dropbox, just copy a file into a designated folder, and a few minutes later it is everywhere, on all the shared machines.\n\nSetting up these kinds of synchronization software is a bit more work up-front than manual backup methods, but once setup should serve you well for years without major adjustments.\n\nFully Automated Backups\n\nAll of the above involve at least some element of manual, potentially forgettable, interaction for backups to happen. There is a whole class of dedicated backup software designed to solve this problem. Some of the commercial solutions are surely quite easy to setup and use, but I would not know because I have never used them. I will suggest a couple free Open Source applications that I use that work for me but do require a little effort to install and configure.\n\nIf you know your way around Linux a little bit, Backuppc[5] should be in every distribution's repositories. There is a little configuration file editing required to setup a machine for backup (and of course, the setup of passwordless SSH login for backuppc) but as server applications go, configuration of this one is really minimal. And you get a management GUI to view backups and do restores. Note that backuppc, when it is running, consumes a considerable quantity of system resources, but minimal disk space because it compresses and de-duplicates all files.\n\nFor the hardcore Linux guy, obnam[6] is a Command Line Interface (CLI)-only app that runs from cron, no GUI whatsoever, that compresses, de-duplicates, and (optionally) GPG-encrypts. This makes it really ideal for pushing backups to public servers. obnam also uses very minimal resources when running. 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