ATIH 2011 Backup disc full
My external drive is full. How do I delete old backups? It says that it keeps versions up to 6 months old but why would I need a 6 month old backup? Surely all I need is a backup from a maximum of a month ago and probably only a few days. A months worth of backups would easily fit on my drive but 6 months worth wont.
Cashie,
Click on explore versions. At the bottom of the new window (call it the backup explorer), you will see a series of versions and dates. You can right click on the oldest one and choose delete. A window will probably pop up saying other versions will be deleted automatically with it if you select a full backup. Review the proposal to make sure you are OK with it.
Alternatively, you can delete (not remove) the entire backup as Bob D suggested.
To set up an incremental backup, you have to create a custom scheme.
a) Click on disk and partition backup
b) Select the destination of your backup. Click on it if you want to change it and browse to where you want it (use the left navigation panel to do so)
c) Click on backup options and set up your incremental backup.
See the corresponding pictures attached
Pat L
Thank you very much. I can’t thank you enough for a sensible and understandable answer.
I’m a fairly simple home computer user and wanted to keep a copy of my computer just in case, but I find the user guide more or less unintelligible.
All the fancy bits and bobs don’t interest me; I just want it to do a basic job that I hope I don’t ever need to use! However if I do ever need it I’d like to know that I had the necessary image available.
I noticed that on your examples “schedule” wasn’t turned on. What schedule do you recommend?
Thanks again for your help, you should consider righting a full idiots guide.
Cashie,
It really depends on your preferences and your backup scheme.
If you are using the default backup scheme (for a disk and partition backup or a file backup), don't change the default schedule. It will be weekly for a disk and partition backup and daily for a file backup. YOu can adjust the time in the day, though.
If you have your own custom backup scheme (incremental or differential), there are a couple of things to consider:
- you should set your backup scheme to do a full backup every now and then,
- if you do a daily backup and you do a full backup after 6 incrementals, you will get a full weekly, for example,
- schedule your backups so that your last full backup never gets too old for you to go back to in the (very rare) case the incremental or differential backups are compromised for any reason,
- schedule your validations so that each full backup of each chain gets validated once. So for example, if you have daily backup with a new full weekly (ie after 6 incrementals), schedule your validation once a week.