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About BackupWorkbench

Most backup advice fails in one of two ways: it stays at the level of slogans ("back up early, back up often") or it dives into enterprise tooling that a household will never run. BackupWorkbench takes the middle path. Each guide treats a backup as a workshop job: measure the material, pick the tools, do the work in order, and check the result before calling it done.

That means plans with real numbers in them (how much data, what size drive, how much headroom, what gets lost in the worst case) and setups that end with a file actually restored. A backup plan that cannot say what it loses in a fire is not finished, and neither is a setup nobody has ever restored from.

The bench is set up for homes and small offices: one or a handful of PCs, external drives, maybe a NAS, maybe a cloud service. No data centre, no backup administrator, no patience required beyond an hour to set things up and a few minutes a month to keep them honest.