It took me exactly a month, but I finally finished backing up my pony archives. Everything up to December 31 2018 is neatly backed up (2019 backups come later). Now I need to get a bunch of hard drives for even more copies. Can’t afford to lose this collection.
Non-episodes: 225994 files, 234 GiB total.
Episodes and movies (includes EqG): 474 files, 241 GiB total. *
Almost half a TiB of pony. I’m surprised it wasn’t more than that.
It’s possible that there are some odd files lurking in non-standard directories I haven’t rounded up yet, but I believe this backup should cover at least 99% of the stuff from 2011-2018.
*) I have more than one copy of some episodes in multiple resolutions. That number also includes low-quality YouTube/DM rips of some episodes.