Disk Usage in Windows Vista Backup

[Guest]

I am running Vista Home Premium. I have Windows Backup set to create nightly
incremental backups to a second hard drive. When I first ran it in early
April, it created a full backup. Since then, it has been adding up to
several hundred megabytes each day. By now, my second hard drive is
completely filled up. I could get a larger hard drive, but it seems that the
backup set is just going to grow indefinitely. I honestly do not need daily
versions of my data files since the time I installed the OS. I could not
find any options in Windows Backup to, for example, create weekly full
backups with daily incremental backups. It seems that one option would be to
manually delete the entire backup set from time to time and then start from
scratch. Or upgrade to a more full featured backup program. Anyone have any
other thoughts of getting around this? Thanks.

 

[David Dickinson]

...I could not
find any options in Windows Backup to, for example, create weekly full
backups with daily incremental backups. It seems that one option would be
to
manually delete the entire backup set from time to time and then start
from
scratch. Or upgrade to a more full featured backup program. Anyone have
any
other thoughts of getting around this? Thanks.

Sadly, Vista's new stripped-down and crippled version of Backup isn't
flexible enough to let you perform this common practice. We'll need a
third-party solution. Over the next few days I'll be evaluating other
software and will report in vista.general what solutions I find for this
critical issue.