title: Backup Strategy

excerpt: The time around the holidays is also a time of backups for me. I’ve automated my most important backup mechanisms. Still I keep some manual backup routines that are hard to automate and I don’t want to spent too much time with. So I execute them once or twice a year and one time is always between the years. This post shares my whole backup strategy.

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date: 2023-01-03T16:10Z

The time around the holidays is also a time of backups for me. I’ve automated my most important backup mechanisms. Still I keep some manual backup routines that are hard to automate and I don’t want to spent too much time with. So I execute them once or twice a year and one time is always between the years. This post shares my whole backup strategy.

TLDR;

• Automatic: Mobile device image upload to OneDrive
• Automatic: Encrypted upload of documents folder to OneDrive (script)
• Manual: Download documents from all banks I have accounts/depots at
• Manual: Download Contacts and Calendar
• Manual: Backup my OneDrive content on a otherwise disconnected and encrypted hard-drive
• Manual: Password manager content backup

Prerequisites

The services I use to store/sync my data define my main prerequisites:

• A Mailprovider for Contacts and Calendar sync.
• 1Password for passwords sync. I am very glad to have switched from LastPass a year ago or so, since the latest Incident at LastPass seems to be quite concerning…