aimeeandbeatles
watermelon
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OK, my external might be going bad. Its a 500 gig drive. Here are the other backup options I have:
-- A few spindles of blank DVD-Rs.
-- A 40 gig external hard drive
-- Three USB sticks: 256MB, 2GB, and 32GB
Here is what I have to backup:
AppData: 66.6 GB. The majority of this is made up by unfinished BitTorrent transfers.
Documents: 1.62 GB. Majority of this is savegames and "The Petty Archives."
Downloads: 5.35 GB. No majority, really, here.
DVDs: 98.5 GB.
Music: 12.6 GB
Pictures: 2.12 GB
PortableApps: 537 GB
Videos: 21.2 GB.
Ways to reduce size, I think:
AppData: Delete everything except for the custom settings or unfinished bittorrent transfers.
Documents: In the savegames, a lot of the stuff is unedited INIs and stuff the game installs there. If I delete evetything except for the savegames it may save a lot of room.
Downloads: I have a few Linux Live CDs here, which can be deleted and re-downloaded if needed. I dont like to delete much here as I once did that to save space and when I went to re-download it the site was gone.
DVDs: Dunno. I have a lot of them on discs already but since I scratched up one to unplayability I dont like to have it as the sole backup. I suppose I could use DVD Shrink to remove the stuff I dont want but I dont want to re-encode anything.
Music: Dunno.
Pictures: Dunno.
PortableApps: Delete programs that I havent used in a while.
Videos: A lot of this is just encoded versions of videos in DVD folders. That can delete a lot.
Any other suggestions? Also, would you put specific things in specific spots?
EDIT: I just realized. Some of the stuff in the BitTorrent folder are things that have completed but are still seeding and I had a copy elsewhere on the HDD. That can save quite a bit!
-- A few spindles of blank DVD-Rs.
-- A 40 gig external hard drive
-- Three USB sticks: 256MB, 2GB, and 32GB
Here is what I have to backup:
AppData: 66.6 GB. The majority of this is made up by unfinished BitTorrent transfers.
Documents: 1.62 GB. Majority of this is savegames and "The Petty Archives."
Downloads: 5.35 GB. No majority, really, here.
DVDs: 98.5 GB.
Music: 12.6 GB
Pictures: 2.12 GB
PortableApps: 537 GB
Videos: 21.2 GB.
Ways to reduce size, I think:
AppData: Delete everything except for the custom settings or unfinished bittorrent transfers.
Documents: In the savegames, a lot of the stuff is unedited INIs and stuff the game installs there. If I delete evetything except for the savegames it may save a lot of room.
Downloads: I have a few Linux Live CDs here, which can be deleted and re-downloaded if needed. I dont like to delete much here as I once did that to save space and when I went to re-download it the site was gone.
DVDs: Dunno. I have a lot of them on discs already but since I scratched up one to unplayability I dont like to have it as the sole backup. I suppose I could use DVD Shrink to remove the stuff I dont want but I dont want to re-encode anything.
Music: Dunno.
Pictures: Dunno.
PortableApps: Delete programs that I havent used in a while.
Videos: A lot of this is just encoded versions of videos in DVD folders. That can delete a lot.
Any other suggestions? Also, would you put specific things in specific spots?
EDIT: I just realized. Some of the stuff in the BitTorrent folder are things that have completed but are still seeding and I had a copy elsewhere on the HDD. That can save quite a bit!