Shawn Taylor Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 Currently my system is backed up to carbonite online. I had also used the Windows Backup and Restore (apparently from Windows 7) on my Windows 10 machine. I had set it to backup to a drive set up on a freenas server. As far as I can see though, only my main drive ( a 500GB SSD) was being backed up to the server, which for now I am okay with until I can and much more storage to the nas. The problem is that it is using almost 4TB of space for that single drive. I believe it just keeps saving a drive image, and then also the data separately, but not deleting the old info. Is there a better set of software that will do a better job and only update the files that change, rather then backing up the same data? I plan to get an external drive to also backup my nearly 3 TB of photos, but I assume this software would work for that as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 Yeah, Windows 10 uses the Windows Backup from Win 7. I personally have only used it a handful of times, but you can configure it to overwrite each backup, so it won’t balloon in file size. Typically, when it comes to my customers, the most common backup software is Veritas Backup Exec. I think the latest is version 20. That said, backup exec is a professional backup software package and might be overkill for what you want. I think it would be best to use Windows Backup and do a weekly full backup (or monthly) and do an incremental daily backup. I’m going to have to think about this one. Personally, I just worry about data files being stored on an external drive and if my main drive craps out, oh well. I just do a re-install. Speaking of which, restoring can be a real pain with backup software. Have you thought about using a HD cloning program like Acronis True Image Backup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Taylor Posted October 1, 2018 Author Share Posted October 1, 2018 I will have to figure out how to get it to overwrite each backup. That should be sufficient for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 This is much easier to do on my computer than my phone. Found this: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/75607-manage-space-windows-backup-windows-10-a.html and this: https://www.backup-utility.com/windows-7/backup-and-restore-automatically-delete-old-backups-windows7-3889.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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