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My routine uses Macrium. I take a full image on the first Saturday of every month, then a differential image every Saturday. I take a daily backup of my Outlook files and of my Quicken account, and also a file and folder backup of the entire drive on the first Friday of each month.
Dell E5570 Latitude, Intel Core i5 6440@2.60 GHz, 8.00 GB - Win 10 Pro
Once your system is established, you should be imaging (at the minimum) before updating, or otherwise making changes to your system… assuming your system is stable and running well. Given Microsoft’s established updating schedule, that means at least once a month.
What you are using your computer for, and what kind of data, and how much damage would happen if you lose it, would help determine your back up schedule. Having a regular schedule is certainly good.
Data isn’t considered adequately backed up unless there are at least three copies, and one is off-site (protecting from local events like a house fire). Examples: computer, external hard drive, DVD, cloud storage.
The most important thing for me, on my computer, are journaling and photos and digital scrapbooking that I do. If I download new pictures from my camera or phone, I run a back up. If I just spent three days editing, cropping, and creating a slideshow, with music, about a family event, I run a back up. Otherwise, I have an automatic local back up scheduled each week, to an attached external hard drive. After the back up, I switch to a different external hard drive. I live in an area where evacuations for fires is a real possibility, so the unattached hard drive is stored in my bug-out bag, so I don’t have to think about what I need to take with me, if there isn’t time to break down my computer.
Non-techy Win 10 Pro and Linux Mint experimenter
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