October 4, 2025 - The Backup

 I had a few false starts with those backups I was doing. At first I started with that thumb drive. That didn't work out. So, then I found some space on one of my external drives and combined with some other space on another external drive it seemed that would work. Then, I remembered I had a blank drive that had about a terrabyte of free space on it so I tried that. It is way too slow with file transfers. I did a bit more digging and I did locate a 2 terrabyte drive that is about half empty so that would provide me with one terrabyte of storage space. A terrabyte is a thousand gigabytes and trust me, that's a fair amount of storage space. I should be able to get the completed backups on that drive.

I noticed a few things while doing this. The music foles are currently stored so that there is no band name in the file title so when I move each file to its respective year folder, I'm having to rename each one so that I will know which band it is. That is time consuming, but there is also a plus to storing these backups on a hard drive. 

When I made the original dvd backup, most of the discs were writable but not re-writable, so its not possible to add data to them. But, with putting them on a hard drive, I can very easily add data to the folders. Since the probability exists that I will have acquired music for each year after I had made each backup, then I will have extra data to store in each year. So, I'm happy with that.

I'm just taking the files I recently started and storing them all on the terrabyte drive. Taking a bit of time but not too much.