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rotating backups..

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this is a very simple (beginners) query -

I want to have a full-backup weekly (or bi-weekly), and then incremental s on that every1-2 days.

What I have found is that I did define a partial backup of 3 main partitions 3 times/week, and a bi-weekly backup of all 6 partitions.

But what I find is that it just keeps accumulating backups till the USB backup disk (8TB) fills up, and then I have to go in and manually delete things.

With this it is not clear to me how complete each backup data-set is, or how to do this setup.

Thanks for any references or pointers.

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For incremental and differential backups the backup chain comprises a full backup + n incremental or differential backups. You can define backup task with automatic cleanup rules, by defining how many backup chains are to be retained.

We need more information on your setup. I understand you have 6 partitions, are they all on one disk or do you have multiple disks? What size are these partitions and how much is on them? For example, on my main PC I have one NVMe M.2 drive that contains the operating system and multiple other drives with different types of data. For each drive I have a separate backup task with the frequency of the backup determined by how frequently the data changes. I minimise the frequency of disk + partition back by supplementing them with files and folders backup for the folders that change frequently such as Documents and Downloads.

if the data on the PC is very important you need to consider other backup options such as backups to one more additional USB HDDs, one of which is stored off site.

Ian