A recap of the strategies I've used for personal backups based on the time and machine I used. 80s At the time, the only machine I have access to is the great Apple ][e . I don't have a backup strategy, because I use it as a gaming machine and the little development I make sits on a floppy. I can't even remember a floppy dying - so no fear of loosing data. It's been a while, so if I had a backup strategy, it was to copy the floppies to newer ones. Dataloss : Bard Tale's III original floppies, one of the few games we had purchased, when I tried to crack it. 90s During the 90s I used a bunch of machines from the Macintosh LC , Atari Falcon 030 , BeBox , Pentium with Adaptec SCSI card. Strategy: No backups, because I'm dumb. In the end, we had a Zip drive , so I did save stuff on these. I also burned CDrom with data that I actually backed up. I never did try restoring, I'm not even sure where this Zip disk and CDs ended up (probably in a trash at some point...
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