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As VaM lives inside its folder you would only need to copy it to have a backup that would run just the same. This may be the simplest way, but copying all files takes a lot of time. This will likely make it a rare event, not great for a useful backup strategy.
What's your backup strategy and tactics for VaM stuff?
I'll start with mine.
Strategy:
As a backup strategy, I want to do a backup every couple of weeks, depending on usage. If I'm making a lot of changes, then I do a backup a lot more often, if not much as happened or is just a few packages from the Hub, then it can be even once a month.
I also want it to be quick to do, both the procedure and the copying of files, with as little manual intervention as possible.
The backup is made to a external HDD.
Tactics:
I'm more used to work in Linux than Windows, which I only use for VaM stuff and games, and for backing up my stuff in linux I rely on rsync. This option is one I've used for several years and I'm quite happy with it, so naturally I wanted to do something similar in a Windows environment.
As I'm not used to the Windows ways, for the moment I am using DeltaCopy, "a 'Windows Friendly' wrapper around the Rsync program", which allows me to do the synchronisation I need, only the changes, in a GUI where I just need to click "run". Works well enough, but I'm always looking to other options.
What about you, how do you do it?
![Waving hand :wave: đź‘‹](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/7.0/png/unicode/64/1f44b.png)
As VaM lives inside its folder you would only need to copy it to have a backup that would run just the same. This may be the simplest way, but copying all files takes a lot of time. This will likely make it a rare event, not great for a useful backup strategy.
What's your backup strategy and tactics for VaM stuff?
I'll start with mine.
Strategy:
As a backup strategy, I want to do a backup every couple of weeks, depending on usage. If I'm making a lot of changes, then I do a backup a lot more often, if not much as happened or is just a few packages from the Hub, then it can be even once a month.
I also want it to be quick to do, both the procedure and the copying of files, with as little manual intervention as possible.
The backup is made to a external HDD.
Tactics:
I'm more used to work in Linux than Windows, which I only use for VaM stuff and games, and for backing up my stuff in linux I rely on rsync. This option is one I've used for several years and I'm quite happy with it, so naturally I wanted to do something similar in a Windows environment.
Rsync is a utility that checks the differences between a source and destination, and then copies only what was changed.
What about you, how do you do it?