Sharon F wrote:
> It illustrates another important point in file management which is to keep
> the structure simple. Simple structure = regular backups. Complicated
> structure = "oops, I haven't done a backup in 3 months."

Not necessarily true if you just back up all files on the system.
IMHO, this is the only way to go; anything else and when it comes
time to restore, you go, "Oh crap -- I never did add that to the
stuff I back up." And then you are missing some important file.

Yes, you can just make a rule that a certain directory gets backed
up and everything important must go in there, but as soon as you
do that, you've got some config file or (on Windows) registry tweak
that took you time to track down how to accomplish, and you can't
put that into your special backups folder.

But then, when they say "back up your work", my theory is that time
spent configuring the machine the way I need it to be counts as work,
so all that data should be backed up.

- Logan