[Roark66]

>What is this mythical unimportant data that people still want to back up?

I have lots of stuff like this. Often it is easier to just back up an entire folder than go through sub/sub folders separating stuff into: important, not very important. Storage costs are low enough to just backup everything (almost). Also, one often doesn't know what may be important/useful in future. For example a couple of years ago I had this huge buildroot system (600gb) to build firmware images for a single board computer I spent quite a while to put together. The project I was doing it for got cancelled so I had no need to keep it. Still I wish I did, as I'd love to be able to tinker with it now, but 600gb is not a trivial amount to store so it got deleted. Most of this data was pulled from various online resources that don't exist anymore too.

What's the morale of my story? If you have a fast internet connection (I don't) backup "everything" to cloud. Then find "really important stuff" like the pictures of your children etc and back it up again to a different cloud.

If you're in a middle of nowhere on a slow LTE connection like me, building a nas box is not a bad idea for backups.

[lanstin]

I have stuff like that on a hard drive in my home, on a persistent storage volume from Linode, and on Dropbox.