You can also try Windows Sandbox also for running really old software. Only problem, you lose it every time you shut the sandbox down. So have to leave it open or use Sandboxie (sandboxie-plus.com) or VM.
The heavy lift is the backup database itself, which is 1.25GB as of this morning. That's the file that keeps track of all the increments belonging to each of the 271,343 files being backed up.
I wrote that a little over 4 years ago. The daily upload size is now 5.3GB, and the daily file count is now around 311,000. *But* I now have a 100mbs fiber connection, so the whole backup-and-upload process takes about half an hour, versus the 5 or so hours it took when I limited to ADSL.
1.2gb is pretty small by today’s standards.
1.2gb is pretty small by today’s standards.
That it is. 8Gb thumb drives are being given away. Jim could get his entire archive on one and hang it on his keychain.
@norman-oklahoma I was just looking at flash drives a few days ago. You can get 256 GB for like 15 bucks which seems insane to me. I was thinking of simply using a flash drive as a backup drive instead of these big, fancy battery powered things the companies I work for have used. I'm kind of skeptical that that is a quality long term solution though.
On the other hand I have a 16 GB scandisk flash drive that's at least 10 years old that I have accidentally put through a washing machine 2 or 3 times that seems to work flawlessly so maybe I have little to worry about...
I have a minimum of 3 flash (numbered) drives and rotate updates to them using the old XCOPY in a batch file that sits on my desktop. One double-click and it updates everything that has changed or been added in selected folders and all their subfolders. One flash trades out with the one in the bank box whenever I open it.
I worked hard a looong time ago to get all my 5 1/4" floppies copied to 3 1/2" floppies, and later all of those to CD's. Now I just use the flash drives for current stuff and important history, but have not copied all the CD's to flash. Fortunately I didn't have any of the other exotic storage media.
Almost none of the old stuff will ever be looked at again, but something might turn out to be important. That's just like all other forms of storage. I wonder if Uncle Paden has gotten that call about elevations on 89th street yet (referencing the Unthinkable thread).
