Questions About Revising the Backup Scheme
Currently, am doing full weekly backups of my 500GB SSD (these are <50GB in size) to an 1TB internal HDD (using W10 and ATI 16). I store 1+5 copies and do not ever delete copy 1. I wish to make a change to my current back up scheme. Everything will stay the same except the destination drive. That, I intend to change from the internal 1TB HDD to an external 4TB HDD. From past experience, I have learned the hard way that I can't simply randomly delete old versions of the backup files and only keep what I want, as they are all somehow linked. Doing so compromised my ability to do a restore. So my question is this:
1/ how can I effect the change I want without compromising my backup capability? I imagine that I must copy "Copy 1" to the new desired destination location (the external drive) but what of the other 5 backup copies? Need they be copied also?
2/ Furthermore, what happens if later, I decide to revise my back-up scheme radically, such as going to an incremental backup or something. Need I keep all the old copies (full backups in this example) until such time as the new scheme has been in place for a cycle or two to allow a restore? And under this new hypothetical scheme, are any or all of the original version copies (full backups), restorable and when I do delete one or more of them, will the original Copy 1 remain restorable?


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