I have a scheduled job that makes a full backup to an external drive every night. Once a week I take the external drive to the bank and swap it with the one in my safe deposit box.

Shopical: Yes, I bank with robotic precision! Actually I have to go there every week anyway to make deposits, so carrying the hard drive just becomes part of the routine.

haha I know, it seems a bit much doesn't it. You can probably tell I've lost a lot of valuable data over the years to faulty/missing backups. The thing is, now that it is all setup, it's mostly automa… (more)

rafal: That's a good point about cheap hosting companies, some of them don't make regular backups and test them. For that reason I would only recommend using them to store backups of your important in… (more)