Backing Up
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From: Jonny_S on 19 Jan 2010 17:37 Thanks
From: Rick Merrill on 19 Jan 2010 17:38 Jonny_S wrote: > This seems so ridiculous but how do I back up with out backing up my backup? > I have an external hard drive - "F." When I run the back up utility and > select - back up entire system, it factors in F into the back up and it backs > up everything. I just want to back up the C drive. I would like to run the > full back up so that it will create the back up disk. I guess an option > would be to back it up to C:\ with the hard drive disconnected and then copy > that file to the hard drive. Might that work? Any other ideas? Many thanks. Start the backup wizard and select "let me choose" then choose just the C drive TO the external drive. This same issue was driving me crazy because each successive backup DOUBLED in size!
From: Patrick Keenan on 20 Jan 2010 19:54
"Jonny_S" <Jonny_S(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E97957AC-906B-4C0F-91CA-B893189B9E5C(a)microsoft.com... > This seems so ridiculous but how do I back up with out backing up my > backup? > I have an external hard drive - "F." When I run the back up utility and > select - back up entire system, it factors in F into the back up and it > backs > up everything. I just want to back up the C drive. I would like to run > the > full back up so that it will create the back up disk. I guess an option > would be to back it up to C:\ with the hard drive disconnected and then > copy > that file to the hard drive. Might that work? Any other ideas? Many > thanks. There's really little need to back up the entire drive. You really want to make a backup of the drive, and then do incremental backups of the data. There are a number of system files that *will change* every time the system runs (the pagefile, for instance) and you do not want or need these backed up. Use a modern backup tool, such as TrueImage. This is not expensive and works very well. HTH -pk |