Nonstop Backup - Limit Storage?
I'm using ATI Plus Pack 2010.7046. I recently started using Nonstop Backup, and I have specified a 1TB partition as the backup destination. There seems to be no way to limit the amount of space Nonstop Backup will use, short of my repartitioning the drive and giving Nonstop Backup a smaller partition of its own. With Online Backup, it's possible to limit both the number of versions as well as the time period to retain backups. I can see no way to do this in Nonstop Backup.
Further, upon reviewing the documentation, I see the following instructions for cleaning up Nonstop Backup's storage space:
"You can delete unnecessary data from the Nonstop Backup storage to increase available space. To clean up the storage:
Move the slider to select a time frame you want to clean. All the backups that were created during the selected time frame will be deleted from the storage.
Click OK
Click Cancel to exit the dialog box without any changes."
Unfortunately the instructions leave out the very important piece of information, which is *where* exactly to find this slider!!!!! I've checked the options and settings, and I can find nowhere to clean up storage. Cleaning up wouldn't be so necessary if I could limit storage in the first place.
Please tell me Nonstop Backup is not as primitive a utility as it seems. If there's no way to limit storage and no apparent way to clean up the storage Nonstop Backup *does* use, I might as well go back to a traditional backup program.
TIA for your help!
Thanks so much, Colin! Wow. If only the instructions had provided some context for finding that slider! I began my career as a tech writer, and I have to say ... well, I just won't say it. ;-)
I found the slider and did that all that. The problem is that whenever I use the slider to delete back to yesterday and today, the used storage does not go down.
I did it first when the 58GB in the partition was just about all used. THe used storage didn't go down, I kept getting doom-laden warning mesages, so I had to turn off nonstop backup, delete the whole record, and start again.
Now the nonstop storage is up to 21.26GB again. I have set it back to 'Yesterday and today', and onve again the amount of used storage has not changed at all. What's going on?
Also, assuming that the problem above can be fixed, why is there not:
* an option to limit the storage to yesterday and today, and
* another option to limit the storage say to 40GB,
so that you don't nave to keep going back and deleting things?
Also, assuming that the problem above can be fixed, why is there not:
* an option to limit the storage to yesterday and today, and
* another option to limit the storage say to 40GB,
so that you don't nave to keep going back and deleting things?
I agree! Further, I only want to back up a few directories on D:, which contains all my data. It's a real pain for NSB to include all dirs, and for me to then have to manually exclude 40 so NSB backs up only three.
If the problems with NSB were fixed, I might actually be able to use it.....