What is the best ways to backup and make free space on backup drive.
Good time of day,
My backup drive is getting near full. I am running a weekly backup of my SSD system drive to a separate fixed HDD with one full backup every 5 versions. HDD is 1 Tb in volume and is also my main data storage, which (data storage) I back up onto the external drive, the backup to this external drive is set to run as soon as I connect it.
Is this optimal what I am doing basically backing System SSD drive to the fixed HDD. And some stuff from that HDD to another removable HDD. NO disk is backed up onto itself.
It appears that l only have space on fixed HDD from one full backup (initial), 5 incremental and one more full backup.
Roman.


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I agree with Steve that you should consider getting a larger external HDD. Large USB HDD are much less expensive than they used to be. If your data is important to you, investing in a new larger external drive is a sensible step.
I would get the largest drive you can afford; 4TB seems to be the 'sweet point' at the moment.
Ian
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Thank you for your advise. I will invest in a larger drive.
Regards,
Roman
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