On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 10:23:20AM +0000, Phil Thane wrote:
Re Backups:
I have modest requirements (and budget) at home but running old cheap kit HDD fail is always a possibility. After try all sorts of solutions over the years, I've currently got an old PC in my shed running as a Nextcloud server. Every thing of importance on my desktop machine lives in /phil/Nextcloud so is automatically mirrored. Photos on my phone are automatically uploaded too. I know it's possible that the desktop crashes and the restore from Nextcloud fails but I think for home use one backup is enough.
What do you do if you delete a file by mistake? If the backup is mirroring your deskto system the file will be deleted there too.
I find that my main use for backups is to restore something I've deleted by mistake or to get back to an earlier version of something.