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Originally Posted by red-beard
Z, I think that monthly is not enough. I have the PCs backup on a weekly basis, automatically, including home PCs. Even without virus/Trojan issues, hard disk drives fail.
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It all depends on how the PC is being used, and how risk adverse you are. IF you are updating a lot of files on a daily basis, then even weekly may not be sufficient.
Apple's Time Machine backup program pretty much covers it - it applies incremental backups based on whether or not the change bit is set on files. It has a slick GUI interface, and allows the user to recover one or all files from any given moment in time.
An effective backup regimen will help you recover your lost files, but it will not prevent viruses and Trojans from doing malicious things to your machine, and the recovery isn't always quick and easy.
-Z-man.