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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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Roman, I would suggest that you should be considering getting yourself a new, larger backup drive as 1TB seems to be at the lower end of capacities these days, especially if your are trying to keep both your ATI backups plus use the drive as your main data storage drive.

The alternative here is to use a separate drive from your ATI backups and keep the 1TB drive just for your main data storage drive.

New drives tend to be relatively inexpensive these days and would be a worthwhile investment in protecting your data and backups.

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