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Old August 17th 08, 12:58 AM
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Hi everyone,
I keep backing up files to an external hard drive and every time it makes a complete copy, and soon fills the hard drive with copies. Then if I delete the oldest I may lose things in there that are not in recent back-ups. How can I remedy this in Vista Home edition?
Thanks.
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Old August 17th 08, 05:46 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:58:19 +0100, andyalchemist
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I keep backing up files to an external hard drive and every time it
makes a complete copy, and soon fills the hard drive with copies. Then
if I delete the oldest I may lose things in there that are not in
recent back-ups. How can I remedy this in Vista Home edition?

Buy a bigger external hard drive. Or two. Or three.
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Old August 17th 08, 12:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
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What I do: I allow weekly automatic backups to continue until I fill my 160
GB external hard drive. When full, I delete all the backups and start over
with a new backup. I find that backups after the first one are incremental
backups, and I get about three months before I have to start over. I may
opt for a larger external hard drive someday, but this works ok for me right
now. Just one way...

"andyalchemist" wrote in message
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Hi everyone,
I keep backing up files to an external hard drive and every time it
makes a complete copy, and soon fills the hard drive with copies. Then
if I delete the oldest I may lose things in there that are not in
recent back-ups. How can I remedy this in Vista Home edition?
Thanks.




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Old August 17th 08, 09:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
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andyalchemist;952229 Wrote:
Hi everyone,
I keep backing up files to an external hard drive and every time it
makes a complete copy, and soon fills the hard drive with copies. Then
if I delete the oldest I may lose things in there that are not in
recent back-ups. How can I remedy this in Vista Home edition?
Thanks.




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andyalchemist

If you want to back up files to an external drive, Microsoft has a nice
program to do that: SyncToy
It keeps an exact copy of the files you selected and it won't fill the
drive with new copies.


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Old August 18th 08, 05:05 AM
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andyalchemist[/i][/color]

If you want to back up files to an external drive, Microsoft has a nice
program to do that: SyncToy
It keeps an exact copy of the files you selected and it won't fill the
drive with new copies.

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andyalchemist;952229 Wrote: [color=blue][i]
Hi everyone,
I keep backing up files to an external hard drive and every time it
makes a complete copy, and soon fills the hard drive with copies. Then
if I delete the oldest I may lose things in there that are not in
recent back-ups. How can I remedy this in Vista Home edition?
Thanks.

Thanks to those who replied. I will try SyncToy which sounds like it does what I want. Deleting old back-ups when I run out of space has risks, because there are times when files were backed up, and are no longer on the computer, which I may one day wish to restore.


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Old August 23rd 08, 06:40 AM
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I tried SyncToy but the second and subsequent times I try to back up (on Vista Home Edition) I get the message "exception during run: the File Sync Provider received an unexpected error while applying a synchronised change" and it fails to perform the back-up.
Any advice, anyone?? Thanks.

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andyalchemist[/i][/color]

If you want to back up files to an external drive, Microsoft has a nice
program to do that: SyncToy
It keeps an exact copy of the files you selected and it won't fill the
drive with new copies.
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Old August 23rd 08, 06:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
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Default back up Error with SuncToy...

For back up use SyncToy action: Echo
There are some problems with action: Synchronize

' Exception during run: The FileSyncProvider received an unexpected
error while writing a change - Microsoft Sync Framework'
(http://tinyurl.com/49tg3h)


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Old August 26th 08, 07:23 AM
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For back up use SyncToy action: Echo
There are some problems with action: Synchronize

' Exception during run: The FileSyncProvider received an unexpected
error while writing a change - Microsoft Sync Framework'
( Exception during run: The FileSyncProvider received an unexpected error while writing a change - Microsoft Sync Framework)


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I have tried Echo, Contribute and Synchronise again and in every case the same message appears and it fails to perform the back-up. I made a new folder pair and tried that and the same again.
Any clues what to do???
Reading other comments it seems that an earlier version of SyncToy was better....
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Old August 28th 08, 08:09 AM
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I have tried Echo, Contribute and Synchronise again and in every case the same message appears and it fails to perform the back-up. I made a new folder pair and tried that and the same again.
Any clues what to do???
Reading other comments it seems that an earlier version of SyncToy was better....
I do have Nero which offers a back-up facility which seems to work well, and can be scheduled.
Any advice or experiences with that??
 



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