$ geany "$d_bin""backup monthly history.txt" /home/bill/PROJECTS/bin/backup monthly history.txt HOWELL_BASE : dir_sizes @ recent monthly backups 05Oct19 27Nov19 20Dec19 25Feb20 182859M 193587M 193588M 200895M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/ 681M 681M 681M 681M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/Dads paintings 20510M 20510M 20510M 20510M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/DVD_BigBattles_WWII 4001M 4001M 4001M 4001M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/DVD_Geert_Wilders 34138M 34138M 34138M 34138M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/DVD_GreatBattles_WWII 5993M 5993M 5993M 5993M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/DVD_HitlerLost 6334M 6334M 6334M 6334M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/DVD_SovietStory 276M 276M 276M 276M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/DVD_SuvorovTalks 48013M 48013M 48013M 48013M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/Icebreaker vids, music, anims 18M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/Jobs 2565M 2543M 2543M 2543M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/My Music 1611M 1011M 1011M 1087M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/My Music mp3 1389M 1436M 1436M 1436M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/My Pictures 6118M 12689M 12690M 12690M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/Neural Nets bag 25878M 25878M 25878M 25878M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/NN_conf_DVDs 1044M 1044M 1044M 1044M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/NRCan 9M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/OOPM builds 1381M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/OOPM builds old n/a 329M 329M 330M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/Purchases n/a 88M 88M 88M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/QNial old junk 21002M 25648M 25648M 25400M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/SW install & maintain n/a 1M 1M 1M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/z_Old 1M 1M 1M 1M /media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/.Trash-1000 46055M* 26200M 71751M 24292M /media/bill/SEAGATE3_4T/YYMMDD HOWELL_BASE monthly_backup *05Oct19 weekly backup 20Dec2020 Cleaned up HOWELL_BASE - many extra directories in it temporarily. 25Feb2020 I added 25.4G of "SW install & maintain" also to 24292M total of /media/bill/SEAGATE3_4T/weekly_backup_HOWELL_BASE giving 49.7G equivalent for I also fixed the excludes file for "SW install & maintain"