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[ale] archiving backups
- Subject: [ale] archiving backups
- From: cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)
- Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:17:14 -0400
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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....