I'm generally a lazy person. This fact has always made it difficult for me to keep good back backups. I recently purchased a giant external drive that syncs with my internal one nightly. Up until this point, I had everything stored on CDs (and more recently, DVDs.) A week ago, I began a journey through the stack that was sitting on my desk. It had grown to be over a foot tall, and had begun falling over periodically.
As I perused the contents of said stack of discs, I found that almost 90% of them were redundant or out of date copies of files I had completely forgotten about. I would estimate that I recovered only about 500MB of files that I had no other usable copy of.
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I agree, it just a joke.
Heck, man. It just takes time. Good old fashioned time.
I'm generally a lazy person. This fact has always made it difficult for me to keep good back backups. I recently purchased a giant external drive that syncs with my internal one nightly. Up until this point, I had everything stored on CDs (and more recently, DVDs.) A week ago, I began a journey through the stack that was sitting on my desk. It had grown to be over a foot tall, and had begun falling over periodically.
As I perused the contents of said stack of discs, I found that almost 90% of them were redundant or out of date copies of files I had completely forgotten about. I would estimate that I recovered only about 500MB of files that I had no other usable copy of.