I'm always impressed by systems like this, but I've personally never understood the point.

I'd be curious to learn from others what the benefits of this kind of archiving are for them? And if the time cost is worth it.

For me, I feel like I treat most of my documents as very temporal things. I need them for a certain period of time, but then after that, they can be list to the ether. I have never really had a need to reference old content, plans, documents, etc.

The only old things I ever need to reference are old code projects and writings. But even that I can usually manage with just a single folder for the project.

Everytime I get a new computer, I just start fresh. Keeping only a very small amount of files backed up in cloud services. Which as I mentioned are just a very small collection of code projects and writings. Am I crazy? Haha.