My revised archive system is bedding done nicely.
As a gentleman of leisure now, I don’t produce as much data
as I used to and thus the automated incremental backups (such as having a NAS
system constantly) are no longer urgent and the number of files is considerably
smaller. The old NAS has stopped working and the priority of setting up such a
system has almost disappeared.
However, in setting up the three-tiered archive system
(Son-Father-Grandfather) and re-arranging my back-pack portable harddrives, I
ended up with one older 1.5GB that was slightly bulkier than the rest.
Significantly it didn’t fit the small zip-up disk wallets I was using to store
the archive sets.
I thought it would give me the opportunity to store incremental
backups, so I put it through a few chkdsk/fix sessions and all was well. I just kept it on my desk (but not connected)
and then at least each week or more often if I doing a lot of stuff (eg larger
photo session). All that is required is setting up an INC Backup folder and setting up 5 folders below that for each week in the month, which will
ensure I have fewer files to look through should I need to recover anything. I just
plug it in and copy anything I’ve been recently working onto the drive.
I’m doing this manually but it is not a big task anymore other
than remembering what to copy. Maybe I should set up an automatic file synch
system. Hopefully, that can wait.
