<p dir="ltr">+1 :-(</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm doing "THE PURGE". Very little code is being kept. I grep for my name as I only added that for decently sized projects. The rest are the zillions of one-offs that are easier to redo than find.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Then the fun begins. I added a text blurb to a file with the name, path and description of each code set I'm keeping. The only code I'm keeping not written by me is specialty stuff that I use or it took eons to find or (this is where it gets ugly) I can no longer find a source for. I treat all of this the same as my stuff.<br>
Once located, I add those paths to by backup process. I then delete on disk duplicates.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Wish I had done this a decade ago </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 6, 2014 9:11 AM, "Chris Fowler" <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
This is not the first time I've attempted backing up everything I've created over 20 years.<br>
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Every so often someone I do not know emails me for a file, software, etc that I may have based on what they read on a mailing list archive. Last night someone requested a file from a project I was working on back in 2002.<br>
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Looking for this file I am reminded about how much crap I really have. I have floppies, CDs, DVDs, etc of backups, data, and whatever. Many of these have dupes. I want to copy all this stuff to a hard drive then archive it. I need to deal with these duplicates.<br>
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A year ago I wrote a perl program to locate the duplicates using md5 hashes. I was then going to delete all, but one of the dupes. The problem I ran into is that some of these could be installs of software and I needed to keep the dupe. I was then wasting time manually determining which ones to delete and which ones to keep.<br>
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Last night I had an idea that may work. Create a directory of the root of the backup named 'dupes'. Copy the dupe once into that directory. Every where else replace the dupe with a symbolic link.<br>
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My biggest issue with backups is management of the data. At 40 I'll copy something today and 6 months from now forget why I even did that. It could be a 1GB SVN software tree I checked out, made some changes for testing and then decided not to delete it. Now I have 1GB of stuff I feel like I can not delete. I can't even remember why I made the copy. Ugh.<br>
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I have so many CDs and DVDs stacked in my office it would be nice to get rid of them. I have drives in boxes that I've forgotten what is on them. I'm a tech hoarder.<br>
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Chris<br>
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