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I've been trying to keep up the habit of making a new Borg archive every Saturday or so. After the initial one, it doesn't take much since it's kinda does a diff first and it also deduplicates everything. Each archive now takes about 5 or 6GB tops instead of 400+. Encryption is also a nice to have, as well as bring able to mount archives (really useful for quickly taking a peek at something).
Edit: I also use the neat patterns file feature to filter out huge directories that don't need backup like caches and game data, while cheery-picking stuff like game saves and so on.
Why not a cron?
Because I have to manually plug the disc (it's a big external HDD) and I prefer to do the backup while not doing anything else on the computer, just to minimize any possible desync between the diff file list it generates and what it actually backs up.