Hi:
I have Norton 360 on Vista Home Premium, and have purchased an aditional 10GB of backup space. How can I manage my backups? I would like to see what is backed up on the Norton server, and be able to delete some files which I have removed from my machine, and no longer want as part of the backup set. There doesn't appear to be any facility to actually manage backup sets in Norton itself. Where/How is this done?
TIA
Bob
Hi RVH.
This is not possible as you describe it, in N360, as far as I am aware. However you could consider setting up 5 identical (apart from the name) backup sets which you run in turn. Then when you get back to running the first it will effectively overwrite the one that was over 5 weeks old.
Would that help?
Hi RVH
Are you using local or online backup?
RVH wrote:....
So, how do you turn on the feature to overwrite previous backups?
As far as I am aware you do not need to turn on the feature it is standard.
The first time you run a backup set all the files identified under that backup set are sent to the backup. The next time you run it, it adds any files that have been added (under the rules you set e.g. all files in a certain folder) or any that were changed. So this new backup set is as if the set had been run again as new, though normally it will not need to copy all the files that were not changed. (Sometimes it seems to get a glitch and does copy all the files again but that is another issue.)
What is unusual in your case is that you want to retain access to back copies of files that may have been changed. This is why you would need to create multiple backup sets. As presumably you want the same folders or files included then you need to give it them same definition for what to back up but provided they have a different name to the set they will be treated separately.
Obviously having five full sets will take up more space but that appears to be what you want.
As N360 worries about any backup set that has not been run for a while you may find that it starts nagging you to backup one or more of the backup sets before you are ready to start the five cycle again. But I would hope that you can live with that.
I hope that helps.
How large is the backup drive and how much free space it there?
Also, how large are the two backups you have there already and how large does N360 say your new backup should be? The last can be found by going to Manage Backup Sets and running "Preview".
So, you are saying that when a new backup runs with the name of one previously run, that it will overwrite a previous one? I haven't found how to do that. Yes, that would fix my problem. I just don't want to have to manually go in and delete old backups.
So, how do you turn on the feature to overwrite previous backups?
Local
I just tried to run it yesterday and had two backup sets on the external drive. It failed and told me that there was not enough room on the disk. Shouldn't it have deleted one of those sets to make room for the new one?
I was using five backups as an example. I don't need to do that. Just having one there would be fine. But, I can't get that to work.