[scalt]

Hi

I'm using Windows 7 at work and need to back up some files I keep on the 'C' drive. There is no standard solution at my work for this because most people don't have 'C' access and their documents are stored on a network drive. I ran through the Windows 7 'Backup and Restore' utility and successfully got it backing my data up daily to a network drive, but it's taking up a lot of space. It seems it creates incremental backups every day for a week, then decides to start again by creating a new copy of everything and using that as the basis for its incremental system for the next week. As a result my 6GB of files have resulted in almost 50GB worth of backups over the last couple of months which, needless to say, is eating through the network drive. Is there any way to tell the backup system not to keep re-creating the new 'full backup' points every week? Remembering to manually delete the old ones is going to be a pain.

This post has been edited by scalt: 29 August 2011 - 07:04 PM

[no2pencil]

Depending on which backup solution software that your company has in place, the answer could be yes or no.

[scalt]

I mean is it possible to do this incrementally with the default Windows 7 backup system? My company doesn't have a standard system because employees working off their physical drives is an abnormality, most don't even have access to them. I can acquire and install some third party backup software if I have to but using the built-in Windows system would be a heck of a lot easier.

[hlx]

It really all depends on what your company has in place, what domain policies are in effect, and how they enforce them. I assume if you are backing up to a network drive, they disallow flash media?

Also, what is it that you need to keep on your C drive, and not on the network drive? You could turn on "Offline Synchronization" of a folder that is on your network share, that way if your computer is mobile, you will still have your files on the go.

This link should point you in the right direction.

[Gavisann]

Using the windows back-up utility, you do not have the option to set up a differentiation or incremental back-up. Trying looking for a third party software.

[scalt]

Thanks Gavisann, I had sort of expected that but was hoping there was some kind of hack for it. I'll have a poke around for some other software

[Gavisann]

scalt, on 04 September 2011 - 03:23 PM, said:

Thanks Gavisann, I had sort of expected that but was hoping there was some kind of hack for it. I'll have a poke around for some other software

A few months ago I wound up making my own copying program. I now store important documents on my Dropbox.