RichG

Bill:

This is exactly the scenario I am hoping to avoid. I appreciate the
information Eduardo has provided thus far, but I still do not see an easy way
to manage this space in an efficient manner. I hate to say this, but I am
now considering acquiring a 3rd party product such as Norton's Save & Restore
given the lack of admin & maintenance tools for Vista's Complete PC Backup &
file-based backup stragegy.

Eduardo - I look forward to your reply to Bill's query...

Rich
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RichG


"BillH" wrote:

>
>
> "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
>