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I've been mixing it up, but I'm still not happy with my backup system. On my Mac I've got a combination of TImeMachine doing basically daily backups, and Chronsync which does backups of the whole machine to a separate disk that I keep on the other side of the house. That second USB disk is basically my "go disk" if Al Qaeda busts in with a nuclear warhead and I need to skedaddle with whatever I can in a rucksack. Videos of the kids and so forth though now takes up too much space for a simple USB disk, and I'm a bit tired of having drawers full of external drives that all require managing and that can - any of them - crash hard and die at any given moment, taking their contents with them. So I've got that stuff on a NAS.

I played with SpiderOak a bit because I dig their philosophy and they offered a native client for openSUSE Linux, which is a big sell for me. I've heard people say its UI is awful but I never thought so - works perfectly well for me, and it's perfectly intuitive. Tarsnap looks damned interesting though, and their pricing is great. I was looking at other rsync providers to back up my NAS and it gets expensive super fast!

Finally, for music not only is all my stuff uploaded to Google Music (which I'm not sure is considered a backup, and I'm not sure I can get it back out, either). And I actually do burn the monthly disk of family photos, manuscripts to my books, and a few other things that are truly irreplaceable. Got to plan for an EMP too, right?