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As far as I'm concerned, till a few months ago I was extremely lazy, and not at all regular at taking backups just like you. But well, an incident of an outage on my PC took place about 4 months ago, in which the hard disk got completely corrupted and ... I lost all those important scripts and other stuff of mine, which I'd never bothered to backup.

Thereafter, I'm extremely sceptical about backups. For the VPSes, U've written a few shell scripts, which mostly do the work of archiving and placing at a publicly reachable URL from there another script downloads it and uploads to GDrive, replacing the previous backup to take care of storage. All these scripts are driven by cron jobs, once a day.

On my PC, I do all the work myself. Most of my applications and scripts are stored on GDrive whereas documents are stored on OneDrive.

The same goes for my mobile, since I'm mostly on my mobile I've quite a bit of important data here, which gets uploaded to GDrive manually.

The disk corruption made me realized the value of losing all your important stuff and having to rewrite them again, and the importance of backing up stuff. Truly this is a good habit.

Regards,

Unfortunately nowadays, many people are oblivious to the importance of taking backups. It takes them a failure followed by data loss involving important data before they “learn their lesson”. Sort off what happened to you! (P.s. I recommend a data recovery service if your lost data is extremely important)

The simplest form of taking backups requires zero experience. It’s, {drum roll}, backing your stuff up to an external usb drive!

And not only is this a cheap (cheap because you pay for the external drive once instead of an irritating subscription) and easy way to take backups, but it also applies to almost all systems! Even VPSs! (By downloading the files and storing them on the USB drive)

Not to mention that large capacity drives nowadays are super cheap and won’t break the bank!