It’s hard letting go; especially during the digital age. It’s funny, because it affects you in different ways. I’ve always been a geek, my father instilled a fear inducing need to back up files and keep multiple copies. Even now, I keep copies of things that really aren’t necessary-or programs and files that I’ve downloaded just in case. It’s the equivalent of a digital hoarder. My files are clean, though, and typically organized. My wife’s files, on the other hand, usually aren’t, but that’s not up for discussion.

Anyway, it’s been a pipe dream to have some kind of rotating backup that can refresh it self across networks and through different offices, etc. Since I run multiple offices, there’s a need to make sure things are backed up and also synchronized. That’s a useful need to having economical backups. That’s a whole ‘nother story.

My main point before I ran away with it, which will come in another article, is that letting go of duplicate files is sometimes hard. When you’re resilient with backups, how much is enough?

I’ve had whole year-long files go down. During an office flood, I lost almost a whole client file, which I had to rebuild, and have only partially completed, but managed to finish for the project. So how many times do you need to keep safe copies, spread across many devices, to make sure that things are saved? And, how many times do you need to copy those as technology changes? I remember when they had jazz and zip drives, which we had in the house, so for criminy’s sake, it’s a tough world out there keeping things nice and safe. And currently I have no less than 3 copies of my photos files backed up, just to make sure those 12 years of family photos are safe.

I don’t have any recommendations, I’m just stating that the digital ghosts are difficult to keep track of….