For about six months now, I've been using OneCare for a daily automated
backup of my data. I’m a professional writer who earns her living on her computer and so I take backup seriously. Now I find that my 250-GB external storage device has
only about 5 GB free. I clearly need to delete some of my old backups, but
how do I know which files I can clear out safely?
I assume the huge set of zip files created when I first ran the program
constituted a complete backup and that what's been created since has been
incremental backups. If I clear out older incremental backups, don't I risk
losing backup for files worked with since the initial full backup, but not
recently? And if I delete, shouldn't I make some deletions from the
"Catalogues" folder as well as from the "Files" folder?
Information on this page
http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1698096&Site
ID=2
<http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1698096&
;SiteID=2> suggests that I'd be better off if I'd realized how fast my device
was filling up when I hit 50 percent full, but it's too late for that.
Do I need to back up to another device until I can clear out my 250-GB drive
and start again, watching for the 50 percent limit this time? I feel like
someone who's having to think about buying another trash compactor because
he can't figure out how to empty the one he already owns.
