Depending on how you choose to backup your most files decides how much time it can take. My work files get burnt onto DVD monthly, onto an external hard drive weekly, and a fraction of my work files are duplicated on a memory card daily. Redundancy means never losing everything, or “having all your eggs in one basket”. It also means that I can go from one computer to another, provided that the other computer has the same or compatible software as my computer. It also depends the type of format style I saved my files.  The work files only take twenty minutes on one DVD. Its the other projects that will start after this countdown that can be time consuming.

There is redundancy, a need for times in a pinch or emergency, and then there is repetitive saving that is debatable if  it holds the same importance. For my work files, they are milestones that show updated information through a period of time. But, to copy fixed files that don’t change is not important. It will still happen, but you can make it a guideline to limit it, by how you organize your files, or in the process of how you choose what files to backup.

The day was about the repetitive copies needing to be reduced. Between pictures, videos, blogs, and work, the hard drive space gets used, and even from the beginning of your first backup, making time to delete duplicate copies may be an exercise to consider. My hard drive holds seven years of work files, and I do my best to keep only a month or two of everything that needs no repetitive copies of the other files relating to the above various files. When it comes to exploring video files, they can consume the most space, and needs to be focused upon, and to burn these over and  over again can be time consuming. So, organizing your space, and moving files into other folder locations to know which needs to be backed up just once, as opposed to the others needing that milestone period of backing, may be a suggestion to consider. My only important warning is to first make a backup, and then, organize your files in a different manner. That backup copy will be more familiar at times, when you cannot remember where you moved select files; a milestone in it’s own sense.

For me, I have to plan on multiple video files for the future, which has me moving, and consolidating files, to create more space; deleting those repetitive duplicate files to boot. This is indeed work. Five and a half hours worth of work.