Backup Problems
These aren’t the traditional type of backup problems where you have trouble either making or restoring a backup. This backup problem is a whole lot bigger, this backup problem is to do with having way too many backups. You see my hard drive has been dodgy and also I have a bad habit of wiping the OS on my boxen.
Problems start occurring when you do this several times and also add in the fact that I sometimes grab files from older backups and edit them and as you can imagine I have a really big file versioning problem. I don’t have a source tree, it’s more of a mesh really.
In an effort to rationalise my filesystem I’m considering keeping a few things in a Subversion repository so I’m having to sort my +10 backups from various times.
Update: After deleting many hidden files and folders from each backup, I’m left with the entire lot still taking up 2.4G