I manage dotfiles with Vorta backups. I don't want to deal with symlink management and such, and it's an easy way to say "These five manually selected dotfiles get saved". I have a separate Vorta profile just for them.
I have projects folders for each category of project, and each project gets a folder. Anything programming related, gets a git repo.
I used to have my top level folders by category, documents, code, etc, and that was a miserable idea. I much prefer sorting by project.
Any folder can have an "Archive" dir for old stuff.
I also have a Collected folder, for stuff that's I just found online and saved, sorted by category. Stuff like RasPi os images and sound fonts go there. It's like downloads but less ephemeral.
Then I have the one that people might not like... TheRuins. Whenever I do a clean reinstall of an OS, which used to be every few years, my old home dir would go there.
I don't want to just use a new home dir, because for one thing it's probably 95% stuff I don't actually need, and also it might have files for some old version of some app that might break the new one.
Stuff I actually DO want, I can manually move along into my new home dir out of the old Ruins.
The rest can just stay until I eventually need more space and move it into an SSD.
All of my media files live in a folder synced with SyncThing, as do a lot of other things.
Stuff I really want to keep gets replicated to my phone and tablet, as well as actually being backed up.
Finally everything gets backed up with Vorta. It's deduplication is amazing when you often move stuff around in a Ruins folder.
If I had the budget, I'd probably have a NAS with two disks, one as a backup target, and the other for general storage.
I have projects folders for each category of project, and each project gets a folder. Anything programming related, gets a git repo.
I used to have my top level folders by category, documents, code, etc, and that was a miserable idea. I much prefer sorting by project.
Any folder can have an "Archive" dir for old stuff.
I also have a Collected folder, for stuff that's I just found online and saved, sorted by category. Stuff like RasPi os images and sound fonts go there. It's like downloads but less ephemeral.
Then I have the one that people might not like... TheRuins. Whenever I do a clean reinstall of an OS, which used to be every few years, my old home dir would go there.
I don't want to just use a new home dir, because for one thing it's probably 95% stuff I don't actually need, and also it might have files for some old version of some app that might break the new one.
Stuff I actually DO want, I can manually move along into my new home dir out of the old Ruins.
The rest can just stay until I eventually need more space and move it into an SSD.
All of my media files live in a folder synced with SyncThing, as do a lot of other things.
Stuff I really want to keep gets replicated to my phone and tablet, as well as actually being backed up.
Finally everything gets backed up with Vorta. It's deduplication is amazing when you often move stuff around in a Ruins folder.
If I had the budget, I'd probably have a NAS with two disks, one as a backup target, and the other for general storage.