Re: Strategy for a backup of Video EEG data...

Phil Stracchino <[email protected]> Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:45:27 -0500

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On 1/10/26 09:39, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Is there a reason not to make each folder its own Job, in which only the
> newest will ever see any significant backup data volume?  This avoids
> the problem of the first full backup taking a very long time to run.
> Each year you create a new folder and generate a new read-only archive.

Actually let me restate that slightly:

You back up each /Storage/folder* directory as its own Job.  Once a 
year, you create a new folder and a new job for it, you do a FINAL Full 
backup of the previous year's folder, and that Full backup becomes a 
read-only archive.

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