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Backup takes 800GB? Manage Windows Backup Disk Space
How do I control how much disk space my Windows Backup takes up? I have a 1TB external disk for backups and other files. My computer's HDD only has about 250GB capacity. I don't know why my backups file got so bloated. What should I do?
I see that I can delete the older backup file: 22-Oct to 11-Nov. But read the text.
""Deleting previous backups will free up space on your backup location."
So far so good.
Then it continues, "All files backed up during the selected period will be deleted."
I'm pretty sure the text is just badly written. I guess that means the backup-files (on the backup drive) will be deleted. They couldn't mean that the original files (on my data drive) will be deleted. That sure is a scary possibility though. How do you understand this?
System: Windows 7 Enterprise
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Last edited by webmanoffesto; 29 Nov 2010 at 06:22.