It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jugendabest on 2025-06-07 14:45:50.

Hello everyone,

I don't know if it is the right place for such question, but let's go.

I started to do backups of my important files recently and I currently doing it naively.

What I do is that I copy (using cp command) my home folder and other important personnal folder on a HDD drive on my computer, also on an external drive and twice a year I copy that external drive on a home server. For now it works, but with time, the transfer and the copy will start to take more time.

But is it the correct way ? I mean is the "blind" copy/paste a correct way to keep folders/files ? Is there a best and faster way to do it ?

For information, I don't need to do snapshots of my system, just keep my important config files and personal folders safe.

Thanks all !