after four years of not backing anything up and not losing anything, i have finally decided to start doing backups. i was finally motivated by this lifehacker article, i wanted an excuse to try it so here's my plan primary pc: -30gb windows partition, with an image stored on my fileserver and on dvd. -20gb ubuntu partition, imaged the same way. -60gb documents partition, copied manually into my fileserver once a week. eventually i will figure out a way to do this automatically. fileserver: -30gb system partition, imaged as drives on primary pc -80gb data partition (for webserver data, etc) backed up to 320gb drive -320gb drive to store images and backups from primary pc. this is an old ide drive, i will switch it to a sata 500gb when it gets full -2x500gb to store movies, music and tv shows, backed up only onto dvd. i can't afford to back those up on hard drives. it looks like there is a lot going onto my 320 backup drive, but really it is not that much because the 60 and 80GB data partitions are almost empty, and the system partitions don't have more than 10GB each. this backing up thing is new to me, so i thought i'd post this here, and get your opinions on it. are there any glaring problems with this scheme?
