On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:43:40 -0700, Imageman
<> wrote:
>Ringmaster wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:02:58 -0700, Imageman
>> <> wrote:
>>
>>> Vista Ultimate 64bit
>>>
>>> I have a 720GB internal drive that I've maxed out with automated weekly
>>> backups. I have another drive with a lot of space, and my question is,
>>> can Vista backup be set to continue the existing backup onto an
>>> additional drive. In other words, the backup files would be spread over
>>> two drives?
>>>
>>> Other ideas welcome, Thanks for your help - IM
>>
>> Why on earth would anyone want 720GB worth of incremental weekly
>> backsups? Most people fail to backup. You seem to have taken it to the
>> opposite extreme having way too much backup that most likely you'll
>> never use.
>>
>> The smart thing to do would be get rid of at least half your oldest
>> backups and with the money you save not buying another drive, take
>> your wife out to dinner. ;-)
>>
>
>Ringmaster - I love a good sense of humor, and, no wife :-)
>
>I'm looking at all my incremenal backups. To make sure I understand;
>You're saying I can delete most of the dated folders on my backup drive,
>up to say, a month ago?
>
>I never paid attention to the finer points of the backup process, just
>felt good that all my files were getting archived (I'm a photographer,
>thousands of images a month). I thought that all the folders and files
>were interelated somehow? Thank you very much for your help, IM
It sounds like you have many copies of the SAME files. If true, all
that extra backup is just wasting space. As a photographer, you might
find is much simpler and faster to simply make backups of you images
IF you are copying everything, files, applications, etc..
I'm into video and here's what I do:
1. I have the original source files
2. I make a backup of each to an external drive
3. I burn a DVD once the project in finished, then delete the original
and it's backup once I'm satisfied I no longer have need for it.
4. I make a second copy by writing it back to DV tape which
any digital camera can play back and in some emergency allow me to
get the file back onto a computer.
So I end up with the finished project and a backup of it in two
different formats or three copies, the original finished project, and
two backups on different mediums.
As a photographer you may want to look at web based automatic backup
options. Most services go for around $50 or so a year, are automatic
running in the background and since off your system, offer a degree of
protection and security from damage you can't do yourself, plus it
saves you time and you might sleep better knowing they are getting
archived on some server that probably gets backed up nightly.
If you want to do something similar yourself I suggest Bounceback.
This will automate the backup process, keep it on your system and what
I like most about it is it is easy to track original files you've
deleted so you don't end up with the clutter of backups of images you
no longer want.
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