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03-24-2008
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| | Automatic Backup - filled my D: drive and now wont backup anymore I have a Dell notebook with Vista Home Premium. The Hard drive came partitioned into the C: drive and D: drive (a 10GB recovery partition). I set Automatic Backup to create backup files on the D: drive, and it worked fine. However, the backups filled the D: drive within a few months and now when backup runs I get a message saying that the backup failed because there isn't enough space on the D: drive. How do I remedy this? Is there a way to make the backup utility overwrite the oldest backup files? |
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03-24-2008
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| | Re: Automatic Backup - filled my D: drive and now wont backup anymore That is not a good place to put backup files, because you may need to recover the system using the files that are legitimately on the recovery partition. The recovery partition is not a good size for making backups either, as you have noticed. Go to the nearest Office Depot or equivalent and purchase a USB hard drive. They are big and cheap. I got a 150 GB model for around a hundred dollars. Earle "Brian P" <BrianP@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:EEE68794-E244-4337-B63E-E0B9D46954B7@xxxxxx Quote: > I have a Dell notebook with Vista Home Premium. The Hard drive came > partitioned into the C: drive and D: drive (a 10GB recovery partition). I > set Automatic Backup to create backup files on the D: drive, and it worked > fine. However, the backups filled the D: drive within a few months and > now > when backup runs I get a message saying that the backup failed because > there > isn't enough space on the D: drive. How do I remedy this? Is there a way > to > make the backup utility overwrite the oldest backup files? |
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03-24-2008
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| | Re: Automatic Backup - filled my D: drive and now wont backup anym I take it, then, that there is no way to make automatic backup overwrite its oldest backup image? Pretty silly. Thanks for the advice. "Earle Horton" wrote: Quote: > That is not a good place to put backup files, because you may need to > recover the system using the files that are legitimately on the recovery > partition. The recovery partition is not a good size for making backups > either, as you have noticed. Go to the nearest Office Depot or equivalent > and purchase a USB hard drive. They are big and cheap. I got a 150 GB > model for around a hundred dollars. > > Earle > > "Brian P" <BrianP@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:EEE68794-E244-4337-B63E-E0B9D46954B7@xxxxxx Quote: > > I have a Dell notebook with Vista Home Premium. The Hard drive came > > partitioned into the C: drive and D: drive (a 10GB recovery partition). I > > set Automatic Backup to create backup files on the D: drive, and it worked > > fine. However, the backups filled the D: drive within a few months and > > now > > when backup runs I get a message saying that the backup failed because > > there > > isn't enough space on the D: drive. How do I remedy this? Is there a way > > to > > make the backup utility overwrite the oldest backup files? |
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