I’ve combined all the partial backups from the last 20 years into a single user directory filesystem. It is currently ~448GB.
Each day I spend some time using fdupes and other tools to deduplicate and place files in my contemporary user directory system.
This task is coming along well. Here’s the top-level structure for my sorting:
$ tree -d -a -L 1 --noreport
.
├── clover
├── docs
├── dotfiles
├── entertainment
├── media
├── personal-docs
├── projects
└── work-history
Most days I’m sorting thru my docs directory, and moving them into other places.
The entertainment directory is further sorted by type:
.
├── anime
├── books
├── games
├── images
├── movies
├── music
├── shows
├── sounds
└── videos
The rest of the directories are kept “flat” so as I merge directories and files in they are reduced. Then I’ll run a process to de-duplicate the files before figuring out how I’d like to structure each one.
The projects directory will eventually be moved into version control.
Files to sort: 339,021 items, totalling 581.9 GB