Explanation of backup file formats / contents

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I suspect that I don't understand the .tib file formats, but I'm not sure what question to ask, so I will describe the (simple) thing I want to accomplish. I invite comments / explanations.

I'm running TI2010 on Vista. I have all of my system + work on C: (about 500G of stuff, total).

I have a "spare" hard drive on E: (about 500G-600G free).

I, also, have an external drive, which is disconnected and turned off most of the time.

I want to do daily incremental backups onto E:, then once a week, copy the full set of backups to the external drive and to rt the backup process over from a full to daily incremental for another week.

I have set up one daily, incremental task. I've told it to limit backups to 500G and consolidate after 7 backups.

What I see on E: confuses me. I see 10 .tib files (Backup, Backup1, Backup2 ... Backup9). And the E: drive is completely full (i.e. more than 500G has been used up).

The .tibs seem to have been created on successive days. The first one is huge, the others smaller (as expected).

If I double-click on a .tib, I see 8 backups with 8 sequential dates inside.

I don't understand why there are more than 7 .tib files on E:.

I'm not sure which .tib's to copy to the external drive. Should I delete any of the .tibs manually (after copying to the external) to start the process over again?

Comments? Suggestions how to accomplish what I intend? Suggestions on how to improve on what I intend?

thanx

mer 21/10/2009 - 13:13
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Here are my suggestions based on what you have described.

If you have the ability to create and modify partitions on your HD, do so. If you don't, research the topic, with huge hard drives these days life is much easier with multiple partitions.

First, clear out your C: drive so that it only contains your OS and program installations. The less you have to backup/restore the better. If you know how to create new partitions, do so. Do a web search on how to put your e-mail folders on a different partition and do that too.

Don't backup daily, that's too often. Especially if you follow my first suggestion, your C: drive won't be changing all that much over time. Once or twice a month is plenty.

I suspect the 500G of data you have on your C: drive is a lot of pictures, etc. that can be archived because they don't change over time. Move them to a different partition, back it up once and be done with it. Put new photos, etc. in a new folder that gets backed up regularly and periodically move that folder over to the archive area and back up the archive area each time you do that move. Don't keep incrementals, its not worth it.

If you can't add new partitions, and don't want to learn how to do it, then the only other suggestion I have is to back up less often. The size of your backups is huge, so doing daily backups only makes the problem worse.

Also, its wise to be able to do a trial run of your restoration process just to make sure all those backups can actually be used to restore your system if the need arises.

jeu 22/10/2009 - 03:12