... and you've prompted me to check my drawer where I found two 3.5" caddies with old laptop disks which I made as backup disks for the daughters to use with their laptops. They since got larger USB drives.
And I also found the old 5.25 drives I took from a redundant TiVo. Had to fiddle with them to allow Windows to write to them but they have no data on them. For once I have more capacity than requirement. Maybe another backup of my weekly backups is an idea LOL.
Talking of which, I am ever grateful for my backups. The other week when messing with SD cards for a Raspberry Pi project I accidentally & carelessly formatted my 8Tb USB drive instead, which in addition to holding quite an amount of live data also has backup's of backups - machines backup to my NAS every week then are backed up to the 8Tb. Luckily the live data was backed up to the NAS (then back to the 8Tb!) so I was able to restore everything - took ages though...
Machine images (apart from my PC) are only updated each time there is a major-ish Windows update, and are stored in two places. Mine is imaged every week. Takes 7 minutes now, including a verify. My C drive only has 54 Gb on it, which reduces to just 21Gb in the image file.
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