Observations¶
Volume identification¶
Volumes are not numbered, instead they are identified by a unique identifier (see SO Differences). This means you never need to process the volumes in any order, nor when you update them.
For instance, suppose you remove some huge files from your filesystem (who would want to watch THAT tv-show again!?). As a consequence the backupstatus
report
shows that a volume contains now 300GB of removable files. You could choose this volume for your next processDrive
and useless content will be dropped, making room and using it for fresh file backups.
Volume content¶
Files are not backed-up in any order. The system just aims to have each file backed-up in a (single) volume. This means content is more or less randomly divided among volumes.