A client's simple question made me rethink how I do data backups

I've always done full image backups for every machine I touch, takes forever but I figured it's the safest. Then last week a guy asked me why I was backing up his temp files and browser cache every time, stuff that doesn't matter. He pointed out I was wasting like 2 hours per backup on junk data. Now I just do selective file backups for the important stuff and it takes 30 minutes tops. Anyone else change their backup strategy after someone called them out on it?

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susan4244mo ago

Have you ever tested restoring from a selective backup to make sure it actually works?

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grayperez4mo ago

See if he was right about everything you were backing up or just temp files?

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