As IT professionals, even we tend to forget to do some of the lessons we always preach. It’s certainly an easy thing to do. Recently, I had one of these faux pas in regards to backups.
I own personally a workstation that I use to edit/add effects to HD videos shot on Go Pro cameras. I also am a hobby Photographer primarily using a combination of a Nikon DSLR, Photoshop to edit, and Adobe Lightroom to organize thousands upon thousands of photos I have taken.
This computer is also an extensive collection of rock and roll music from the last five decades or more. I’m talking about 200-400 CDs / vinyl that have been imported into a large raid array existing in this workstation. I always take a weekly differential backup of what has changed and try to take a monthly full backup. My important documents also get back up on a more regular basis.