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Dear All,
Rather than simply clicking and dragging files onto a standalone hdd, I've started to use Vista's backup wizard.
It tells me it makes a copy, then each week ( I've set weekly backups ) it scan through and only updates those files that have changed. I thought this was a good and economical way to use my 160Gb standalone hdd.
Well, after a few weeks, my standalone hdd is full! I realise that looking at it, each 'update' backup is 15Gb-ish, so after ~ 6 weeks it's full.
So..... I can either start again, making a new image of my computer hdd onto the standalone and run it on again for a few weeks and repeat the process
Or ..... simply delete the earlier updates on the standalone - BUT if I do this, then presumably the updated files in -say - update 1, won't appear in update 2/3/4 etc cos they changed the week before, so by deleting the first update, I'm actually deleting fies that only exist in it?
That's logical isn't it????
My gut feeling is to start again!
thoughts from IT Guru's much appreciated!
cheers
Q
Use Synctoy instead - it's free from Microsoft
pdf: Errr ok, not heard of that, I'll look it up
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Q