I was wondering how often does one choose to make and keep back ups. I know that “It depends on your business needs”, but that is rather vague and unsatisfying, so I was hoping to hear some heuristics from the community. Like say I had a workstation/desktop that is acting as a server at a shop (taking inventory / sales receipts) and would be using something like timeshift to keep snapshots. I feel like keeping two daily and a weekly would be alright for a store, since the two most recent would not be too old or something. I also feel like using the hourly snapshots would be too taxing on a CPU and might be using to much disk space.

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    6 months ago

    Storage arrays: hourly snapshots stored for 24 hours, daily snapshots stored for one week.

    Longer term stored in veeam on a different array, those are taken daily and stored for 30 days typically. Sometimes longer archival copies if the business needs.

    Bare metal usually daily

    We also replicate all data live up to the cloud, for DR. (windows dfsr)