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FXB

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I backkup my 2tb C drive to another 2tb drive. It seems that I have to format the backup drive every few days because it is full what can I do so that I do not have to format it all the time? Should I add an extra drive? I'm not sure what software I use to backup.

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If you can figure out what software you are using there is probably a place where you can set a retention period or incremental type backups.
 
Ok, I don't see anything to automatically let you overwite old backups after x time or the drive fills up, you may need to schedule a task to clear the drive and then do a full backup (called normal backup in Windows Backup). This assuming you don't need a lot of historical versions of your files, if you do need the historical copies you'll need more drive space.
 
Before I go suggesting you buy more drives to increase storage, make sure you are only backing up what you need. If you have installed applications, you probably don't need to back them up, you can always reinstall.

Assuming you are only backing up what you absolutely need (i.e. your documents, pictures, etc) and you need that much space per backup, you may be better buying a NAS box and running backups from it.
 
Cromewell said:
Before I go suggesting you buy more drives to increase storage, make sure you are only backing up what you need. If you have installed applications, you probably don't need to back them up, you can always reinstall.

Assuming you are only backing up what you absolutely need (i.e. your documents, pictures, etc) and you need that much space per backup, you may be better buying a NAS box and running backups from it.
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I don't have much software on my PC currently could I not just get some drives and backup locally on my own computer rather then spending 500$+ for a NAS then buying drives?
 
I think you need to organize your hard drive that you only backup the files that are use everyday. I am a system adminstrator for a very small company, I organize the data and documents in one folder and have different sub-folder for each program's data. every evening I just run a batch file to backup this folder so I have multi copy of these files. the backup isn't that large without programs and pictures or movies.
Cheers.
 
I don't use any space consuming software I probably have about 15gb of software I don't mind backing it up repeatedly. I want a backup of my document, music, photos, videos (this accounts for about 1tb) I don't upload pictures often or do any document creating on my PC. I mostly use it to watch movies/shows and listen to music.
 
What you can do is put the videos and photos into different time period. e.g. old video and photos. you keep one copy on the backup drive and leave them alone and just backup the new ones, after few months then move these new ones to the older folder.
 
I don't really know anything about the mediacenter. but as logically the arrangement is done on the first drive and not the backup drive alone. You keep he older video file in a folder different from the new one, I am sure the program you use will be able to collect information from muilti-folders.
You do a total copy first to the backup drive so it has all the files. then backup the newer files (on the seperate folder from the older ones) daily to the backup drive on the new folder alone, so you don't backup entire drive everyday.
 
So would adding another drive work? I don't want to have to do some ridiculous archiving stuff. I just want a redundant backup on that I won't have to reset everyday.
 
I went ahead and purchased another drive, but now when the first backup drive is full my backups stop. I'd like to be when one drive is full the backup continues on the next drive.

Data on my C: drive is rapidly increasing I need to figure this out before I lose data.
 
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