TSGL: Acronis filling up disk space

[EDLYNN]

Marko -

I've been using Acronis True Image 8 for a while, without a problem.

They recommend the full backup first. That's a still photo of my complete 
installed hard drive, OS, and all apps, settings...the works. In fact, that 
becomes a completed clone of your installed HDD. The incrementals are only 
of the changes you have made since the last time, and much smaller in GBs. 
It leaves everything else sit as was, like the OS... My internal HDD on my 
laptop is 60GB and I use an 80 GB external HDD for backup only. I get  ome 
full backup and about four incrementals before I start a new full backup 
after the last incremental, and thus open up room by overwriting the first 
full backup with incrementals to my second full backup.

You may have accidently called for a full backup when you meant to only back 
up your Documents and do incrementals fo that folder. The language is a 
little tricky.

It's seems to be a good program. Give it another try. Good luck.

ED
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Mccarter" <cgangel at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Acronis filling up disk space


> Marko,
>
> Give Karen's replicator a shot... free and should fit the bill.
>
> http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp
>
> Doug McCarter
> Computer Guardian Angels
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Marko Bjelac <marko.bjelac at gmail.com>
> To: list at tsgserver.com
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 1:12:05 PM
> Subject: TSGL: Acronis filling up disk space
>
> I have an external hard disk with about 150GB of space which I use only 
> for
> backup. I tried Acronis True Image and created a backup job which
> incrementally backs up my complete documents disk. The used space on the
> document disk takes up 51.6GB, but Acronis somehow fills the complete 
> 150GB
> backup disk with those 51.6GB he is backing up.
>
> I set up the backup job to back up the whole partition/drive, not 
> individual
> folders. Is that the problem?
>
> How (and with what back up program) to daily back up 52GB of documents on 
> to
> an external hard disk connected via USB? Of course, only a fraction of the
> 52GB is modified and added to the lot, but I want a program with 
> incremental
> backup which doesn't clutter up the backup disk.
>
> Marko
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