So I am extremely new to hoarding but have already gotten extremely deep. I starting really building my collection about 3 years ago. I wanted to build the best retro gaming PC for me and my family to use when we are together.
I started out small and just downloading a lot of basic top 25-50 games on each system, but then ended up just downloading entire collections and the system has gotten MASSIVE.
I have video snaps, cover art, screen shots, and all kinds of other stuff that took me a long time to compile and it totals up to around 30TB
My question is, how do I go about backing up this much data without tying my computer up for 24 hours a day for over a week or whatever the time estimate said? There has got to be a faster way than just copy and paste onto a new drive right?
TIA
Edit: thank you guys. Seems my biggest fear is true. Once I reached 8tb I had the thought “I wish I had been keeping an extra copy of this the whole time. Oh well. I’ll figure it out later” which was probably the stupidest though I could have had at the time