[ale] archiving backups

[Chris Fowler]

On 08/06/2014 09:32 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> +1 :-(
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
> Once located, I add those paths to by backup process. I then delete on 
> disk duplicates.
>
>

My pitfall is nostalgia.   I'm now looking at a CD which has 100 floppy 
disks.  I've slowed to a crawl as I look at different ones remembering....