I finished backing up everything and then reinstalling Windows today.
Then I started the process of restoring all my data.
There is nothing more frightening to navigate to the backups folder on the external drive and NOT see the current backup.
Turns out, when I copied the files from the recovery console, it marked the backups as hidden...
Tomorrow will be configuration / application installation day. Hopefully by Sunday night, I'll be back to where I was when I left work on Friday...