can I back-up only new files in Home Edition?

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andyalchemist

Hi everyone,
I keep backing up files to an external hard drive and every time it
makes a complete copy, and soon fills the hard drive with copies. Then
if I delete the oldest I may lose things in there that are not in
recent back-ups. How can I remedy this in Vista Home edition?
Thanks.
 
I keep backing up files to an external hard drive and every time it
makes a complete copy, and soon fills the hard drive with copies. Then
if I delete the oldest I may lose things in there that are not in
recent back-ups. How can I remedy this in Vista Home edition?
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Buy a bigger external hard drive. Or two. Or three.
 
What I do: I allow weekly automatic backups to continue until I fill my 160
GB external hard drive. When full, I delete all the backups and start over
with a new backup. I find that backups after the first one are incremental
backups, and I get about three months before I have to start over. I may
opt for a larger external hard drive someday, but this works ok for me right
now. Just one way...
 
andyalchemist[/i][/QUOTE]

If you want to back up files to an external drive, Microsoft has
nice
program to do that: SyncToy
It keeps an exact copy of the files you selected and it won't fill the
drive with new copies.

spot;702273 said:
andyalchemist;952229 said:

Hi everyone,
I keep backing up files to an external hard drive and every time it
makes a complete copy, and soon fills the hard drive with copies
Then
if I delete the oldest I may lose things in there that are not in
recent back-ups. How can I remedy this in Vista Home edition?
Thanks.

Thanks to those who replied. I will try SyncToy which sounds like i
does what I want. Deleting old back-ups when I run out of space ha
risks, because there are times when files were backed up, and are n
longer on the computer, which I may one day wish to restore.


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