Backups

There was a gentle start to the day (unlike yesterday). I went downstairs for some coffee and an initial trawl through the papers. When Diane emerged, I got dressed and headed off to Zoe's to take Ellie to school. There was no early morning walk, as Ellie had insisted on bringing her scooter to school. This meant that I had to take it back home for the day.

I settled down for breakfast and a more thorough reading of the overnight news. I then finally headed out for my walk. I chose a different route, heading to Shripney via the "Pre-14th Century Highwayway from Berstead to Shripney and the North". It is one of my favourite routes, and today, I only passed one other person and two cars in all the time I was out.

Back home, I retired to the study. (Diane was on the phone with her friend Marilyn). I spent some time researching several legal matters and contacting some providers of legal services. It is time that we updated our Wills and registered some Lasting Powers of Attorney. The process has started, and now I await contact.

With that done, I returned to the master photo library. I needed to update the automatic backup settings for the new year. (The overall library is tens of gigabytes, and checking the whole library every night would be stupid, so I just check the last two years each day for any changes I might have applied). This didn't take long, but it was good to know that it was now operational). On reviewing the backups, I realised my 5th copy of the master file was several years out of date. I manually applied all the missing updates. I must look into automating this for the future, but that can wait for another day.

We went to collect Ellie from school. As the class finished, we were able to go in and review the classwork that she had been doing during the year. It is clear that she is doing very well, but she really must improve her handwriting.