Backups from three computers have totallty consumed a 2tB hard drive ... Since the total size of all three machines being backed up is less than 700gB I suspect that old/deleted files are being retained, but can't figure out how to remove and/or otherwise manage this.
help!
Tks
-Ray
RStakenas wrote:Backups from three computers have totallty consumed a 2tB hard drive ... Since the total size of all three machines being backed up is less than 700gB I suspect that old/deleted files are being retained, but can't figure out how to remove and/or otherwise manage this.
help!
Tks
-Ray
Welcome Ray,
I don't need to know what you are backing up. What you need to do is review what you are backing up and determine a few things. First, do you have files that are unchanged from backup to backup? If so, can you burn them to a CD/DVD and exclude them from future backups? Next, do you have files that will not end the world if they are lost? You might consider deleting them. You could also burn them to a CD/DVD before that, for 'just in case'. Then look at how long it takes to consume your backup space. Under normal circumstances three months of backups might be enough to cover any circumstance. Older backups, just the monthly full backups, can be burned to a CD/DVD and stored for as long as you feel necessary. I think the usual requirement for business records is 7 years. My accountant 'suggests' saving the most critical files for 10 years.
I have Ghost set to do a new full backup each month and then incremental backups twice a week. So far it has kept me out of any deep trouble.
Hope this helps
Hmmmm ... I had thought the program was more "advanced" than that ... seems rather basic for a backup that if a backup file was present and not updated, it would NOT back it up again ... it's disappointing that that simple intelligence is missing ... oh well ... thanks for the reply!
-Ray
Hello Ray,
Unless I am deeply mistaken Norton 360 does not attempt to backup a file if it has not been modified.
I have only used the online backup and have not used a backup drive before so I don't know if the conditions are any different however if you would like to make sure I assume you can test it out by backing up a simple file that has not been backed up before to your backup drive and once it is done run the backup again and see if it actually transferred over when the backup procedure is going on.
The only other thing I can think of is that perhaps something like after a version update had occurred perhaps it a new set of of backups or something such. Perhaps search the backup drive for a file and see if it is duplicated?
I don't know if it is needed but perhaps it would help if you could provide the version of Norton 360 that you are currently using.
If you should need any specific help feel free to post back.
Take care,
Mumford68