I found good advice about the backup regimes at:
http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/pag...vista-faq.aspx
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...033.mspx#ESAAC
From this I have surmised that from time to time, Vista will institute a
'full backup' as opposed to continuously and forever doing incremental
backups; I think that each time you see a 'backup set' you are seeing a new
full backup; within that set there will be incremental backups. I have
already had to delete some of my backup sets that were earlier than the
latest backup set date. I should think that your backup set from 4/23/2007
can be safely deleted, leaving your 6/2/2007 set as your current and active
backup. I have only tried restoring one file out of the backup, and that
was just a test to prove I could search for and restore a particular folder;
but I feel confident that I am satisfactorily backed up. Good luck!
"BillH" <BillH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BBD60199-4D22-47FE-802A-2D28003EC806@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for replying John.
>
> Yes, I see the backup sets and catalogs with the various directories of
> backup files beneath them. I don't know why I seem to have two backup
> sets,
> one from 4/23/07 and another from 6/2/07. I didn't overtly create a
> second
> set.
>
> The way these things have worked in my experience is that there is a full
> backup of all files made and then subsequent backups only include changed
> or
> added files (and maybe some indication that a file has been deleted and
> when
> in the catalogs). If you just delete the oldest backups you lose files
> that
> have been changed. If you delete the ones inbetween you may lose files
> that
> have been added.
>
> It is typically necessary to run some sort of utility to compress the
> multiple backups to the extent you want. There might be some options to
> like
> keep only the latest copy of a file and discard all previous ones or to
> keep
> the latest copy of deleted files (the one just before they were deleted).
>
> Based on the reaction I'm getting I'm guessing that such doesn't exist for
> the Microsoft Vista backup solution?
>
> "John Hanley" wrote:
>
>> When you Open your G: drive what do you see? You should see some folders
>> containing the backups corresponding to the various dates on which you
>> did
>> the particular backup. Are you saying you cannot delete the older/oldest
>> backup folders?
>>
>> "BillH" <BillH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:FB78CD85-7F49-4BDD-B758-53E20125B5B1@microsoft.com...
>> > I've been using Vista Ultimate's Backup and Restore Center to back up
>> > my laptop to an external 500GB drive weekly since April. I am now out
>> > of space on the external drive and I can't seem to find any way of
>> > eliminating the redundancy of the file backups. I did the recommended
>> > disk image backup and then set it up to backup files. I never dreamed
>> > I'd run out of space so soon. Is there any way to trim down the file
>> > backups to just the latest version or two? I tried the disk cleanup
>> > program, but it said nothing about backup versions that I could see on
>> > either the C: drive or the G: drive where the backups are.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Bill
>> >
>>
>>
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