smiguel Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 well now my backups are backing up and I checked to see how the other hardrive i have backed up is doing. In 2 days it used up about 10GB. Thats not really good. All the backups are on "Software Compression" and i was wondering how can i make the storage smaller (if i could)? Also, my boss wants to get an external hardrive thats like 1TB? what do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 A 10 GB backup isn't very big considering your plan to use a 1 TB drive. If you are already doing compression, then the only way to have a smaller backup is to backup less data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiguel Posted April 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 thats true. is about 10GB per week a lot? I just checked and it wasnt a 2day backup but almost a weeks worth of backup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 No that isn't very much in todays computer world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiguel Posted April 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 true again well that hardrive has 40gb left of space. so i guess the next step is an external hardrive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eppinizer Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 (edited) Or perhaps a tape drive. Tape drives are great because if you store the tapes off site than you will have physical media that wont be affected if your disk malfunctions in some way. -jeff Edited April 21, 2008 by Guest grammar :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlts22 Posted April 28, 2008 Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 I personally like tape drives, but as an alternative, removable hard disks such as Imation's Odyssey (and the Dell system that is rebranded) are becoming popular too. If you want a backup unit that is attached to the machine, I'd consider one of the external drives that has two disks inside that can be configured as a mirror. Of course, this doesn't remove the need for removable media for offsite safekeeping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted April 28, 2008 Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 Or perhaps a tape drive. Tape drives are great because if you store the tapes off site than you will have physical media that wont be affected if your disk malfunctions in some way. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of mag tapes. -- Dennis Ritchie Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiguel Posted April 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 (edited) well heres the problem, it started getting bigger when i started backing up my boss iMac. Does retrospect have an option where it only backs up anything that was changed? instead of keeping all of the same stuff..... i really dislike the fact that it takes up so much, compared to before it was about 500mb/day to now 5gb/day Edited April 30, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 Does retrospect have an option where it only backs up anything that was changed? Retrospect only copies the files that are new or changed since the prior backup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiguel Posted April 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 really?....i wonder what the heck is going on in the computers! does this mean a lot of new data is being added/or new changed files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 You need to look at the list of files getting copied so you can figure out what is being copied each night. I suspect these are really changed files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiguel Posted April 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 sorry for being so stubborn, but where do i find that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiguel Posted April 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 (edited) i think its in session contents hey i found a file where it was set-up wrong and it coppied like 6 folders that are 10-15gb and i do not need them, but they were backed up like last month. how would i remove them? Edited April 30, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 You can not remove data from the backup itself, without erasing the entire backup. You would need to do a Recycle Backup to start over again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiguel Posted April 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 thats a real bummer. what would recycle back up do? also when i do get the external hardrive, do you recommend me moving everything that i previously backed up to the external or just leave it there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 Sorry, I thought you had the Mac product. You can try to groom out data if this is a disk backup set. http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=7941&p=2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiguel Posted April 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 Sorry, I thought you had the Mac product. You can try to groom out data if this is a disk backup set. http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=7941&p=2 so after i forget it, i have to go in and groom it? if not it wont delete it right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 Step 5 in the document says select "groom". This will delete the data in that snapshot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiguel Posted April 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 Step 5 in the document says select "groom". This will delete the data in that snapshot. i selected the folders within snapshot and it said it will delete the ones that were selected. and then i groomed it p.s. - you are the austin power of backup! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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