Backup Procedure Guidance Needed

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Hi, I have a Win2k that I have the following backup procedure:

I do a weekly full backup. In between full backups, I do a nightly
incremetnal backup.

The incremental finally filled up the hard drive it was backing up to.
My question is, am I supposed to do a full backup and then weekly
delete the incremental file that is increasing in size?

Should my procedure be:

1. Weekly full backup
2. Incremental
3. Weekly full backup
4. Delete Existing incremental before the next incremental backup kicks
in
5. Incremental
....

Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you for help.
 
That is a good basic idea, though you will want to make sure that you are
not making backups of your backups. Don't back up the full backup and
incrementals in your nightly backups.

Also, try to get the backups off of the machine. If the hard drive crashes,
your backups will be worthless if you can't get to them.
 
One of the reasons a hard drive is used is because the tape drive took
forever to get to a given point. This was as couple of years ago. Are
there any tape drives that don't cost over $2500 that are fast? And
thank you for your comments on the backup (both of you.)
 
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