Thursday, February 04, 2010



One important step in my Getting Things Done Weekly Review is backing up my computer. To ensure that I have a most recent copy of data, even if my computer's OS goes awry one bad day.

Initially I wrote a shell script to take backups. But since I was not following GTD, I was not quite regular at backups and so when my computer banged, I didn't have all recent data to work with. Even if I take regular backups, reconfiguring the backup script was quite difficult.

Recently, I discovered Back in Time, an amazing one click tool (on Linux) to do periodic file backups. The good thing about this tool: When only a few items change in your to-be-backed-up folders, then it copies only that stuff, but creates hard links for the existing folders.

My backups are never been better!