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type="topic" style="tip"
id="backup-what">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="backup-why"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.4.0" date="2012-02-19" status="review"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.13.92" date="2014-09-20" status="review"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
<email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
</credit>
<credit type="author">
<name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
<email>tiffany.antopolski@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Michael Hill</name>
<email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
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<desc>Back up anything that you cannot bear to lose if something goes
wrong.</desc>
</info>
<title>What to back up</title>
<p>Your priority should be to back up your
<link xref="backup-thinkabout">most important files</link> as well as those
that are difficult to recreate. For example, ranked from most important to
least important:</p>
<terms>
<item>
<title>Your personal files</title>
<p>This may include documents, spreadsheets, email, calendar appointments,
financial data, family photos, or any other personal files that you would
consider irreplaceable.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Your personal settings</title>
<p> This includes changes you may have made to colors, backgrounds, screen
resolution and mouse settings on your desktop. This also includes application
preferences, such as settings for <app>LibreOffice</app>, your music player,
and your email program. These are replaceable, but may take a while to
recreate.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>System settings</title>
<p>Most people never change the system settings that are created during
installation. If you do customize your system settings for some reason, or if
you use your computer as a server, then you may wish to back up these
settings.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Installed software</title>
<p>The software you use can normally be restored quite quickly after a
serious computer problem by reinstalling it.</p>
</item>
</terms>
<p>In general, you will want to back up files that are irreplaceable and files
that require a great time investment to replace without a backup. If things are
easy to replace, on the other hand, you may not want to use up disk space by
having backups of them.</p>
</page>
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