Norton 360

[bkout]

It is kind of odd that a tech person has not chimed in here to clear things up. There aren't that many posts so they must be reading them. All posts about my own experience refer to backup to a different location on my same hard drive -- haven't done the online thing yet. If I do it I would do both -- not online only.

[redstick]

I am not having any luck finding a solution to this, and unfortunately I might have to resort to the online Chat Help (which is a thrill over dial-up). I have a feeling their solution is going to be : Uninstall, Run NRT, Reinstall. Then comes the marathon of updating the software.

[bkout]

redstick -- did you see my post from 05-03-201206:05 PM? What was your experience with trying something similar? Were you seeing the folder size double each time or???

BTW I've done the chat thing 3 or 4 times lately -- it's not too bad really and they can temporarily take over your machine to fix things

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redstick wrote:
I am not having any luck finding a solution to this, and unfortunately I might have to resort to the online Chat Help (which is a thrill over dial-up). I have a feeling their solution is going to be : Uninstall, Run NRT, Reinstall. Then comes the marathon of updating the software.

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[redstick]

On a previous back up set, it eventually did fill a 750 GB external HDD. On the last Back-up attempt, I cancelled it because it was backing up files that I know were not modified since the last backup. I am not sure if there is an index file that backup compares files to, or how exactly it determines if a files has been modified. I am going to reformat the external HDD, and look for and Norton Backup directories, and try one more time.

[dickevans Super RootKit Eradicator]

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redstick wrote:
On a previous back up set, it eventually did fill a 750 GB external HDD. On the last Back-up attempt, I cancelled it because it was backing up files that I know were not modified since the last backup. I am not sure if there is an index file that backup compares files to, or how exactly it determines if a files has been modified. I am going to reformat the external HDD, and look for and Norton Backup directories, and try one more time.

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Hi,

Doing a partition backup 360 will backup everything the first time and then backup only the files that have changed on the next times until the limit you have set. It will then make another full backup and incrementals again until it reaches your time limit. You also set the number of cycles that are retained. If you only want to retain a single backup 360 will make the second complete backup, with incrementals before it deletes the older one.

I'm not sure if this answers your questions or gives you the information you need to create the backup set you need to do the job your want done. We'll be here.

[redstick]

This is what it used to do. Since the upgrade I have not had the same success. Where do I find these settings? In the Backup menu, I can not find anything referring to cycles, etc. I have reformatted my external hard drive, changed the letter assigned to it, and I am creating a new backup set. Hopefully this will work. Am I missing something in the settings to allow more options?

[dickevans Super RootKit Eradicator]

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redstick wrote:
This is what it used to do. Since the upgrade I have not had the same success. Where do I find these settings? In the Backup menu, I can not find anything referring to cycles, etc. I have reformatted my external hard drive, changed the letter assigned to it, and I am creating a new backup set. Hopefully this will work. Am I missing something in the settings to allow more options?

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Hi,

Had to boot a test system so I can look at 360 and type. You want to 'Manage Backup Sets' In the 'what' tab select the drive, in the 'where' tab your backup destination, in the 'when' select the days of the week or days of the month [like every Wednesday]. If you select 'automatic' 360 does things its own way, manual sys that a backup will only be run when you click on the 'run backup button. 360 will nag you if you try to wait too long between backups.

I use a different program [Ghost] for several reasons that may not apply to your situation.

Hope this helps

[redstick]

Maybe I am misunderstanding the terminology.  What are you referring to when you the "limit I have set"  Also where do you set the number of cycles that are retained?  Lastly, if I am understanding it correctly, N360 requires 2X the space required for a single backup, because it will at some point, create a copy and then delete the first backup.

I understand the What, When, and Where of the backup.  I just do not see any of the "limit or cycles" type of options.  Is this something that is only for the on-line backup?

The original issue I have with the backup was that it appears to be copying unchanged files to the existing backup

[Bradmak]

Hi - I am the originator of this post and my original question still stands.

"Can 360 v6 be set to automatically delete / overwrite a previous back up??? In regards to a particular backup set, I am only interested in the latest data"

I am refer to onsite only not online back ups

My question is simply "can it be done"???

If Yes - Can anyone provide a (NEWBIE) step by step as to how to go about this, please

[bkout]

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Bradmak wrote:

Hi - I am the originator of this post and my original question still stands.

"Can 360 v6 be set to automatically delete / overwrite a previous back up??? In regards to a particular backup set, I am only interested in the latest data"

I am refer to onsite only not online back ups

My question is simply "can it be done"???

If Yes - Can anyone provide a (NEWBIE) step by step as to how to go about this, please

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I too would like to see a more detailed response from Dick -- I wonder if he is talking about settings in Ghost that are not in 360?? Anyway please see my post above from 05-03-201206:05 PM. I'm pretty sure my backup is just doing the incremental version without any settings being done on my part. I did however delete the 360_Backup folder initially.