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Grooming Windows Vista backups
Hi all...
I'm having problems with a client running Windows Vista backup. Their external backup drive to which Vista is backing up data is filling up. Is there any way to tell Vista to "groom" the data, removing older data to keep the drive afloat? Or, is there way to have Vista completely reset the entire backup set on a regular schedule? Thank you! |
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Grooming Windows Vista backups
I am having the same problem.
I have 2 external drives, 500 GB each. Each week I am backing up drive 1 ( usage aprox. 200 GB ) to drive 2. Now drive 2 filled up. This is because I suspect Vista backs up more than 2 versions of each file which is not needed for me, I just want 1 version of each file backed up. How do I limmit this? "Marc Hoffman" wrote: Hi all... I'm having problems with a client running Windows Vista backup. Their external backup drive to which Vista is backing up data is filling up. Is there any way to tell Vista to "groom" the data, removing older data to keep the drive afloat? Or, is there way to have Vista completely reset the entire backup set on a regular schedule? Thank you! |
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Grooming Windows Vista backups
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:03:02 -0800, HansOlo
wrote: I am having the same problem. I have 2 external drives, 500 GB each. Each week I am backing up drive 1 ( usage aprox. 200 GB ) to drive 2. Now drive 2 filled up. This is because I suspect Vista backs up more than 2 versions of each file which is not needed for me, I just want 1 version of each file backed up. How do I limmit this? By using a third-party backup utility like Acronis True Image. It's not free. "Marc Hoffman" wrote: Hi all... I'm having problems with a client running Windows Vista backup. Their external backup drive to which Vista is backing up data is filling up. Is there any way to tell Vista to "groom" the data, removing older data to keep the drive afloat? Or, is there way to have Vista completely reset the entire backup set on a regular schedule? Thank you! |
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Grooming Windows Vista backups
Hmm. of course I could use third party software, but this would Render
Vista Backup completely useless and I don't just bite that. There must be a way to customize this, or else Microsoft shouldn't have ever ever bothered to construct such a backup utility with functions OS wide to rollback to older files. Besides I want to limmit the 3th party software running in the background due to performance on my old P4 "Rob Talley" wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:03:02 -0800, HansOlo wrote: I am having the same problem. I have 2 external drives, 500 GB each. Each week I am backing up drive 1 ( usage aprox. 200 GB ) to drive 2. Now drive 2 filled up. This is because I suspect Vista backs up more than 2 versions of each file which is not needed for me, I just want 1 version of each file backed up. How do I limmit this? By using a third-party backup utility like Acronis True Image. It's not free. "Marc Hoffman" wrote: Hi all... I'm having problems with a client running Windows Vista backup. Their external backup drive to which Vista is backing up data is filling up. Is there any way to tell Vista to "groom" the data, removing older data to keep the drive afloat? Or, is there way to have Vista completely reset the entire backup set on a regular schedule? Thank you! |
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Grooming Windows Vista backups
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:29:01 -0800, HansOlo
wrote: Hmm. of course I could use third party software, but this would Render Vista Backup completely useless and I don't just bite that. There must be a way to customize this, or else Microsoft shouldn't have ever ever bothered to construct such a backup utility with functions OS wide to rollback to older files. Besides I want to limmit the 3th party software running in the background due to performance on my old P4 Third party backup utilities don't run in the background any more than Word does. You're not going to find a way to customize MS's rudimentary backup. "Rob Talley" wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:03:02 -0800, HansOlo wrote: I am having the same problem. I have 2 external drives, 500 GB each. Each week I am backing up drive 1 ( usage aprox. 200 GB ) to drive 2. Now drive 2 filled up. This is because I suspect Vista backs up more than 2 versions of each file which is not needed for me, I just want 1 version of each file backed up. How do I limmit this? By using a third-party backup utility like Acronis True Image. It's not free. "Marc Hoffman" wrote: Hi all... I'm having problems with a client running Windows Vista backup. Their external backup drive to which Vista is backing up data is filling up. Is there any way to tell Vista to "groom" the data, removing older data to keep the drive afloat? Or, is there way to have Vista completely reset the entire backup set on a regular schedule? Thank you! |
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Grooming Windows Vista backups
"HansOlo" wrote in message
... Hmm. of course I could use third party software, but this would Render Vista Backup completely useless and I don't just bite that. There must be a way to customize this, or else Microsoft shouldn't have ever ever bothered to construct such a backup utility with functions OS wide to rollback to older files. AFAIR the MS-supplied backup utility has NEVER been any good. -- Asking a question? Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about, your OS, Service Pack level and the FULL contents of any error message(s) |
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Grooming Windows Vista backups
There is a way to automatically clean out old files with forfiles.exe although it includes some batch file creating and setting a scheduled task. Take a look at 'this ' (http://ask.metafilter.com/35075/Auto...-under-XP)link and search for the post from hincandenza. Once you get the hang of it it's very useful. -- CGA |