How I Built a Local Backup System With Rsync and an Old SSD
Introduction: 15 gigabytes is not enough
Not having all the projects and assignments I did in college neatly organized in a single directory is one of my biggest regrets as someone who spends most of his life in front of a computer. Whether it was because of the infinite Google Drive storage my university provided, or the countless flash drives, emails, and random files I sent and received through every possible communication channel during those five years.
As with all good things, I knew the infinite drive wouldn’t last forever, and as soon as I graduated, I transferred everything to my personal Google Drive.
Big mistake
In one second, 99% of my free tier storage was gone, filled with messy, duplicated, and poorly formatted files, with the bonus that not everything had actually been transferred.
The solution: throw everything onto my computer and pray the hard drive doesn’t melt.
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