BillH

"Eduardo Laureano [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi Rick, you illustrated clearly the gist of it. Using disk cleanup does
> delete older backups indeed, but always keep the most recent intact. But a
> lot of users can part with only keeping the most recent backup.
>
> Recommendations are hard because it depends on usage pattern and amount of
> storage available. But roughly you can take a full system backup every
> couple months and have weekly file backups. If you want to keep one full
> system backup safe (to not be deleted as space becomes needed - let's say
> your backup from when your machine was fully configured), you can store the
> VHD(s) in a separate partition from your usual backup. If you don't take
> further backups in the archive partitions, your backup will never "age out".
>
>
> Eduardo

Excuse me for jumping in here, but I've been using Vista Ultimate's Backup
and Restore Center to back up my laptop to an external 500GB drive weekly
since April. I am now out of space on the external drive and I can't seem to
find any way of eliminating the redundancy of the file backups. I did the
recommended disk image backup and then set it up to backup files. I never
dreamed I'd run out of space so soon. Is there any way to trim down the file
backups to just the latest version or two? I tried the disk cleanup program,
but it said nothing about backup versions that I could see on either the C:
drive or the G: drive where the backups are.

Thanks,
Bill