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    I am drowning in wasted disk space for my backups.

     

    My problem is that I keep almost all of my historical e-mails (Microsoft Outlook - 2003).  Every time I get a new e-mail, my .pst file changes.  It looks like OneCare Backup makes a copy of the entire file.

     

    In my case, that means about 50 Megabytes each and every day.  I run out of disk space on my backup drive very quickly.

     

    I want to make a backup of my e-mails.  But OneCare is very inefficient.

     

    How do I get around this?

    Wednesday, May 6, 2009 4:56 PM

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    It sounds like you are performing a daily backup. I would suggest excluding the .pst file from your backup and manually copy the .pst file to your external drive using Windows Explorer when you wish to make a backup copy of it. If you perform a weekly backup or a monthly backup, you wouldn't see this problem as quickly, though it will still bite you eventually since there is no maintenance feature in OneCare backup to clean up older backups.

    -steve

    Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare & Live Mesh Forum Moderator
    Wednesday, May 6, 2009 5:41 PM
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