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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="backup-why"/>
    <desc>Back up anything that you can't bear to lose if something goes wrong.</desc>
    <revision pkgversion="3.2" date="2011-10-01" status="candidate"/>
    <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>
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  <title>What to back up</title>

  <p>Your priority should be to backup 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 backup 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 backup 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>

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