Creating new space on a full backup disk
My backup disk is full after one full backup and many incremental backups. I want to:
1. take full backups weekly and incremental backups daily and
2. recycle backup disk space every three full backups.
How do I specify this and how can I avoid erasing the backups I now have? (Possibly consolidate first?)
More specifically,
1. How do I specify the above backup schedule? I find the user interface to be quite confusing, as such things as settings seem to be well hidden.
2. Is there a way I can gracefully shift to the above strategy on the backup disk without erasing the numerous data already there? Perhaps consolidation is in order, but I can't understand the documentation on consolidation at all.
Thanks a lot!
(Sorry, I'm sure this question has been addressed many times, but I've spent a lot of time looking for answers on line and in the documentation, and haven't been able to find the answer.)
Roger
P.S. I notice that messages regarding full backup disks in the forum seem to get a lot of views. Perhaps the documentation could be beefed up a bit in recovering from this situation.
While you are perusing the links that Enchantech provided, you must understand that if the disk is full you cannot consolidate your current backup set.
Is there any particular reason you want to retain the current backup set you have?
Daniel,
Well, erasing the contents of the current backup disk leaves my data vulnerable if my hard disk were to crash before the new backup was made. Though that is highly unlikely (especially since I use RAID mirroring), I always like to be as safe as possible. No biggie, but I am delighted that you were able to give me the information about not being able to consolidate with a full disk. Thank you!
Roger
Enchantech,
Thank you very much. I figured this subject had been addressed already, but I couldn't figure out how to search for it in the forums. Your first reference was very helpful to me and I used it as a guide. (Time will tell if I did it right!) The second reference looks interesting and useful, but somehow I couldn't get the sound to work. C'est la vie.
Roger