I chose last night to do backups of my data on my primary machine. I have nearly 90GB of documents, pictures, music, video, e-mail, bookmarks/favorites, and my desktop. I copy all of this, usually on a quarterly basis, to my MyBook 1TB external drive connected via a USB cable.
When I started the copy I was informed that the operation would take 135 minutes, and that, of course, is just the first SWAG of an estimate made by Windows Explorer. What it really took I don't know because I left it and went to bed. Fortunately the operation completed successfully, and did not get hung on on some issue, as can happen from time to time. So when I awoke today I had successfully completed backing up all 90GB.
The data went into a new folder I named MY DATA FROM WINDOWS 7 LAPTOP BACKED UP ON 9-1-2010. I have several such folders which are now getting close to filling up the 1TB. Soon I shall have to free up some space and will go and delete the oldest backup to do that. And so it goes.
I think I shall be giving some thought to finding an alternate and better way to back up all of this data. It would be very nice to have it stored at an off site location where I would be able to access it from anywhere, but then I'd have to pare down the amount of data if I wanted an affordable solution.
I'll let you know what I come up with, if anything, but I don't expect to do that soon. Right now I am feeling pretty good knowing I have a complete backup of all of my data. I hope you are enjoying that same feeling.
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