Catched your attention? Good. My attitude towards making regular, tested backups is pretty sloppy, I usually use ugly shellscripts that write my data to USB-sticks via cronjob, but more often than not I do not make any backups on new machines for weeks or even months. Yes, I know how stupid that is.

As I probably have deserved it, this now came back to bite me in the arse and I've lost some (more or less important) data a few days ago. I took that as a hint to finally find a backup strategy that does not consist solely of "#yolo". My question is, how do you do backups?

I know of tools like AMANDA, Arkeia or Bacula, but they are a bit overkill for my scenario (A couple of boxes connected to the Internet, a notebook), but on the other hand, going back to writing shell is something I don't like either .. halp!