Agent skill

Backup Strategy

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Set up a backup system that actually protects your photos, files, and devices — built on the 3-2-1 rule and, crucially, tested so it works when you need it.

MITAuto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Backup Strategy

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill backup-strategy -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills backup-strategy --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/backup-strategy .claude/skills/backup-strategy && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
backup-strategy
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
509 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Set up a backup system that actually protects your photos, files, and devices — built on the 3-2-1 rule and, crucially, tested so it works when you need it.

  • Works in 5 steps: Apply 3-2-1. Three copies, two different… → Prioritize the irreplaceable. Photos,… → Automate it. Scheduled/continuous backup… → …
  • Asked how to back up my data
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: 3-2-1, Automated,… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Backup Strategy is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Set up a backup system that actually protects your photos, files, and devices — built on the 3-2-1 rule and, crucially, tested so it works when you need it. Use when asked how to back up my data, set up backups, protect my photos/files, or what's a good backup strategy. Produces a 3-2-1 plan tailored to your devices and data, specific what-to-back-up priorities, an automation setup so it happens without you, a restore-test step, and protection against the failure that ruins backups (ransomware/sync-deletes…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Backup and disaster recovery. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked how to back up my data
  • Protect my photos/files
  • Whats a good backup strategy

Example prompts

  • “/backup-strategy”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Apply 3-2-1. Three copies, two different media (e.g. local drive + cloud), one off-site — so no single event (fire, theft, ransomware)…
  2. Prioritize the irreplaceable. Photos, personal documents, and unique work first; apps and media you can re-download come later.
  3. Automate it. Scheduled/continuous backup beats manual — the ones you have to remember are the ones that lapse.
  4. Protect the backups themselves. Keep at least one copy offline or versioned, so ransomware or a bad sync-delete can't wipe every copy at…
  5. Test the restore. Recover a real file (and ideally a full-system test once). An untested backup fails exactly when it matters.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Backup Strategy loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 137 tokens; SKILL.md has 509 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~137
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 509 words, ~1,050 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/backup-strategy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
backup-strategy
description
Set up a backup system that actually protects your photos, files, and devices — built on the 3-2-1 rule and, crucially, tested so it works when you need it. Use when asked how to back up my data, set up backups, protect my photos/files, or what's a good backup strategy. Produces a 3-2-1 plan tailored to your devices and data, specific what-to-back-up priorities, an automation setup so it happens without you, a restore-test step, and protection against the failure that ruins backups (ransomware/sync-deletes reaching the backup).

Backup Strategy

Everyone means to back up until the drive dies or the phone is lost. This builds a real system on the 3-2-1 rule — three copies, two media, one off-site — sized to your actual data and devices, automated so it happens on its own, and (the step everyone skips) tested by doing a restore, because an untested backup is just a hope.

What This Skill Produces

  • A 3-2-1 plan — three copies, on two types of media, with one off-site/cloud, mapped to your devices
  • Priorities — what to back up first (irreplaceable photos/documents) vs. what's re-downloadable
  • Automation — how to make backups run automatically so they don't depend on remembering
  • A restore test — actually recovering a file to prove the backup works
  • Resilience — protecting backups from ransomware/accidental-deletion and sync tools propagating a deletion to every copy (versioning, offline copy)

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • Devices & OS — computers, phones, and what platform each is
  • What matters most — photos, documents, work files, and roughly how much data
  • Current backups — what (if anything) exists now, and whether it's tested
  • Budget & comfort — external drives, cloud services, willingness to pay/automate
  • Threats of concern — device loss/theft, hardware failure, ransomware, accidental deletion

Framework: 3-2-1, Automated, Tested

  1. Apply 3-2-1. Three copies, two different media (e.g. local drive + cloud), one off-site — so no single event (fire, theft, ransomware) takes everything.
  2. Prioritize the irreplaceable. Photos, personal documents, and unique work first; apps and media you can re-download come later.
  3. Automate it. Scheduled/continuous backup beats manual — the ones you have to remember are the ones that lapse.
  4. Protect the backups themselves. Keep at least one copy offline or versioned, so ransomware or a bad sync-delete can't wipe every copy at once.
  5. Test the restore. Recover a real file (and ideally a full-system test once). An untested backup fails exactly when it matters.
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Output Format

Backup plan: [devices] · [key data] · [budget]

3-2-1 for you

  • Copy 1 (primary): [device].
  • Copy 2 (local): [external drive / NAS] — automated [how].
  • Copy 3 (off-site): [cloud/off-site] — automated [how].

Back up first: [photos, documents, unique work]. Later: [re-downloadable]. Automate: [schedule/tool per device]. Protect backups: [versioning + one offline copy] against ransomware/sync-deletes. Test: restore [a file] now; full-restore test [once].

Quality Checks

  • Plan follows 3-2-1 (three copies, two media, one off-site)
  • Prioritizes irreplaceable data first
  • Backups are automated, not manual/remembered
  • Includes a restore test, not just a backup
  • Protects backups from ransomware/sync-delete (offline/versioned copy)
  • Tailored to the person's devices and budget

Anti-Patterns

  • A single copy on one drive — no redundancy.
  • Manual backups that quietly lapse.
  • Never testing a restore — discovering it's broken during a crisis.
  • All copies online/connected so ransomware or a sync-delete hits them all.
  • Backing up everything equally and burying the irreplaceable stuff.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "How should I back up my photos and files properly?"
  • "Set me up a backup system for my laptop and phone."
  • "I don't want to lose my photos if my phone dies — what do I do?"
  • "Is my current backup actually safe from ransomware?"
  • "What's the 3-2-1 backup rule and how do I set it up?"

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/backup-strategy of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Backup Strategy

What does Backup Strategy do?

Set up a backup system that actually protects your photos, files, and devices — built on the 3-2-1 rule and, crucially, tested so it works when you need it. Backup Strategy is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Set up a backup system that actually protects your photos, files, and devices — built on the 3-2-1 rule and, crucially, tested so it works when you need it.

When should I use Backup Strategy?

Backup Strategy fits situations like: asked how to back up my data; protect my photos/files; whats a good backup strategy.

How do I install Backup Strategy in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill backup-strategy -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/backup-strategy in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/backup-strategy in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Backup Strategy in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill backup-strategy -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/backup-strategy in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/backup-strategy in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Backup Strategy in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill backup-strategy -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/backup-strategy, .gemini/skills/backup-strategy, .github/skills/backup-strategy and .opencode/skills/backup-strategy in your project.

What does Backup Strategy need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Backup Strategy is instructions for the agent only.

Does Backup Strategy access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Backup Strategy safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Backup Strategy use?

Backup Strategy is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Backup Strategy use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Backup Strategy?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Backup Strategy: OmniRoute Backup and Sync CLI (diegosouzapw/OmniRoute, 75k stars), Pymobiledevice3 Device Operator (doronz88/pymobiledevice3, 2.9k stars), Myclaw Backup (LeoYeAI/openclaw-backup, 659 stars) and OmniRoute Database Backups (diegosouzapw/OmniRoute, 75k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Backup Strategy?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.