In other backup programs, they allow you so save a certain number of backups, when you get to that number they automatically delete the oldest one and then run the new backup. So, if you back up once a week and save five backups you always have five weeks worth of backups. N360 doesn't seem to have this feature. So, other than manually going to that drive and manually deleting those backup sets, how do you do this?
Hi SailingCyclops,
If you go to Manage Backup and select the destination as Online Storage, you will be able to find how many files/folders backed up. There you can find the option to Delete Previously Backed up files. You can select individual files/folders and remove whichever you don't want.
Yogesh
Thanks!
Well... then I suspect it is doing a full backup. Not sure why. Not sure how to change it either as there seem to be very few controls availalbe in the Norton 360 backup preferences.
I am familiar with block sizes and I am set pretty small. The first backup used about the same of the preview - 75gb or so. Now a month later it is way up there.
I back up music/pictures/vids/documents to the internet using a different program. I figured it would be nice to have a local backup of everything just in case. But without the means to adjust it, I am stuck looking at other options.
Unless someone knows how to change this to an incermental backup with options of a full backup every 2 weeks??
Slack space (due to cluster size) isn't it since the default cluster size is 4K for all volumes up to 16TB.
Your 75GB preview is only showing files that have changed and will, consequently, be backed up on the next run; it is like an incremental backup except that it is only updating the sole archive rather than creating a new one. (I wish N360 did real incremental backups rather than overwriting a good backup with a potentially bad one.)
To prove this, create a new backup set with the same files/folders and run a preview; I bet its 212GB.
No. I just attempted a new backup set with the same files and it is 76GB.
And that's why I'm not a betting man. :D
I have no ideas on that one. You can delete your current backup archive and re-run it to reclaim the space.
But...that doesn't answer the question, "What went wrong?"
I can not find this topic covered here in the forums or in online help.
I am backing up 75gb of data from my home computer to a networked drive elsewhere in the house.
Everything was fine when I started this process. Now a month into it, the backup set is still about those same 75gb (even when I click preview), however, the norton backup directory is showing 212GB used. What is that about?
Why is the norton backup directory 3 times the size of the actual backup?
Is this a full or incremental backup? I can not seem to locate this information, but it would make sense that it is incremental.
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?
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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.
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".