What I do: Let my once per week automatic backups to my external hard
drive continue until it gets full; then I delete the entire backup folder
and start over with a new, full backup. I usually get about three months on
my
160 GB external drive between cleanouts. I use that 160 GB drive only for
backups.


"Bender" <imnotgivingmynametoa@machine.net> wrote in message
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>I am trying to figure out what to do when my backup location can no longer
>accept new backups because it is full.
> I tried to do a search but the "full" just brings up references to the
> Full Backup you can do with Windows Vista Ultimate.
> Any one know where I could find out best practices for doing backups.
> For example, do I reformat the drive my backup is on so I can do another
> backup? Or do I buy a bigger drive, and continue doing this as the months
> go by? Do I swap for another drive to continue doing my backups, and just
> keep buying more drives as they get filled? Do I hope that Moore's Law
> also applies to hard drive storage?[/color]