On Linux, I have my .bashrc, Vim config, other config files, documents, etc. backed up to various Git repos. All the essential stuff I wouldn’t want to lose.

I don’t make an effort to preserve my entire home directory, there’s just too much junk that accumulates over time.

Evey 5 years or so, I find some reason to reinstall Linux and start over, which is like a breath of fresh air.

What is your backup strategy?

None. I mean it.

When I forget my gloves in the train I don’t check lost and found either.

I can redo whatever I could have lost in less time than I would waste doing all these backups and whatnot.

I use borg + rclone for years. The caveat is that I have to manually trigger my script but nothing prevents it from being scheduled, I just haven’t bothered. Motivation to tinker with macOS deteriorates by the week lately.

Having various backup tools like borg or restic (or rustic) gives you another layer of backups i.e. it’s a “repository” of backup snapshots which you can configure to have N past backups based on counts or time slots. And then that repository I disperse across multiple cloud services (and my own home server), compressed, deduplicated and encrypted.

I also test my backups once a month or two. Because if you don’t do that, they are pointless.