Changing my backup location

[Rosie29]

Right now I am using Retrospect Pro 7 to back up my complete 80 G hard drive (30 G of free space) every day to an 80 G Maxtor external drive; of necessity, those are all recycle backups.

 

I just bought and installed a second external Maxtor drive, this one 500 G--major upgrade! So I would like to transfer my current daily backup to the new drive, changing (of course) the destination and also the backup types in the schedule--clearly they won't all have to be recycle backups. So I have some questions:

 

1. What would be the best way (step by step, please ) to edit my current backup (named Complete Backup) so it writes to the new Maxtor drive?

 

2. How often would it be advisable to run a recylcle backup in the course of a week, given my current use of the C: drive? I'm thinking twice a week, but am open to suggestions.

 

3. Should the backup be written to the root directory of the new Maxtor, or could I direct it to a folder named Retrospect (just in case I wanted to put some other content on the drive)?

 

4. Are there other changes I need to make?

 

I know these are pretty basic questions, but this situation is new to me and I want to be sure I handle it correctly. Thanks for any help!

 

Annie