Hello,
About two weeks ago, I started noticing that my C drive memory was slowly decreasing. It was not until today that I checked the properties of the Norton backup folder and noticed that it contained 638 GB. Does anyone know why this file has taken up more than half of my hard drive? My C drive memory has been fluctuating, but it once fell all the way down to 0 bytes. I was thinking of just deleting the entire backups folder, but I am curious as to how this happened and if it is safe to just delete the folder.
Thank you.
paladin85 wrote:
Hello,
About two weeks ago, I started noticing that my C drive memory was slowly decreasing. It was not until today that I checked the properties of the Norton backup folder and noticed that it contained 638 GB. Does anyone know why this file has taken up more than half of my hard drive? My C drive memory has been fluctuating, but it once fell all the way down to 0 bytes. I was thinking of just deleting the entire backups folder, but I am curious as to how this happened and if it is safe to just delete the folder.
Thank you.
Welcome,
The size of the folder which holds your backups will depend on the settings you have selected when you configured your backup set. My backup folder is about that size but it is on an external backup drive. I have it set to hold three months of twice weekly backups.
Keep us posted
Hi paladin85.
My first question would be why are you backup up to your C drive? If the drive goes faulty then your backup goes with it. Or have I missed something?
Next I wonder how much your backup thinks it should be taking? You should be able to find this out by selecting the preview function under Manage Backup sets.
I have found that sometimes N360 backup seems to suffer a memory loss and instead of incrementally adding just the files that are new or changed, it can do a complete new backup and add it to the backup file that already exists. In this case a 10 Gb backup can suddenly double to 20 Gb and the next time to 30 Gb.... This may have happened in your case. My solution is to have a second backup set, and then if one of the sets starts to get too big, I just delete it from the disk and run a new backup (always protected by the other set).
Does that make sense? Does it help?