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# Over the summer, McGill will be migrating from Novell to Active Directory. Part of this introduces a policy that each user will have a home drive with 1GB of space. I'm already over this for my backups, so I have a problem.

(My current backup procedure is to use SyncBack to mirror my /My Documents folder to my network drive. I have a reminder in Outlook that pops-up everyday reminding me to run the process. Eventually, I'll figure out how to have the process run automatically on a regular basis, although part of the problem is that I'm not always connected to the network, so the automatic process kicks up a bunch of errors, sometimes without letting me know. Anyway, blah, blah, its a problem to solve.)

I'll need to go through and clean up my documents. One potential solution is to clean out a bunch of PDFs that I downloaded and saved. Rather then store references, I've had a habit of storing the whole PDF. Not very efficient, and, as I am finding out, it puts a load on my backup procedure. They'll need to go.

Other then that, I'll probably do a search and see what the big files are. In most cases, I'm expecting to be able to gain some space there.

But in the long run, is this going to work? As I make more extensive use of Camtasia, including more screencasts in my lectures, where am I going to put those files? Where am I going to back them up? I can't be the only person on campus for whom 1GB is insufficient.