Grooming Windows Vista backups

[Marc Hoffman]

Hi all...

I'm having problems with a client running Windows Vista backup. Their
external backup drive to which Vista is backing up data is filling up. Is
there any way to tell Vista to "groom" the data, removing older data to keep
the drive afloat? Or, is there way to have Vista completely reset the entire
backup set on a regular schedule?

Thank you!

 

[HansOlo]

I am having the same problem.

I have 2 external drives, 500 GB each. Each week I am backing up drive 1 (
usage aprox. 200 GB ) to drive 2. Now drive 2 filled up. This is because I
suspect Vista backs up more than 2 versions of each file which is not needed
for me, I just want 1 version of each file backed up. How do I limmit this?

 

[HansOlo]

Hmm. of course I could use third party software, but this would Render
Vista Backup completely useless and I don't just bite that. There must be a
way to customize this, or else Microsoft shouldn't have ever ever bothered to
construct such a backup utility with functions OS wide to rollback to older
files. Besides I want to limmit the 3th party software running in the
background due to performance on my old P4

 

[Gordon]

Hmm. of course I could use third party software, but this would Render
Vista Backup completely useless and I don't just bite that. There must be
a
way to customize this, or else Microsoft shouldn't have ever ever bothered
to
construct such a backup utility with functions OS wide to rollback to
older
files.

AFAIR the MS-supplied backup utility has NEVER been any good.