# Minding my goals (ian's corner) **URL:** \ **Category:** Life\ **Created:** [December 13, 2021, 3:46am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/minding-my-goals-ians-corner/9933 "2021-12-13T03:46:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![ianminds](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/ianminds/32/4188_2.png) [@ianminds](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/ianminds)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/minding-my-goals-ians-corner/9933/7 "2022-03-07T20:24:25Z")
**backup** This goal was directly inspired by this [post](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-beemind-folding-laundry-right-away/9490/6) by @zzq. It measures any and all time spent involved with any aspect of backing up your data, or as zzq calls it, “interacting with [your] backups”. In my case that even extends to file management (organizing data), since I started this goal woefully underprepared. I cannot recommend this enough. It’s been a couple of months now and I’m still not backed up well, but I can only imagine with a little horror how much worse it would be if I hadn’t done all this work in the mean time. Even if I were to think I had a foolproof system by now, the work would never stop (maybe dialled down a little). PS: If I recall correctly, that initial peak was me restoring data off of a drive that didn’t have any backups… ![d3cbaab5-cc9e-488a-bc21-729eeb5110f8](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/4/49f174534e9d47194749cc6f22ee0370223b8a2c.png) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/minding-my-goals-ians-corner/9933)._