Windows Backup to network share.

Nevram · 13 Feb 2012 at 15:14

Hello,

I've currently got data being backed up from my machine (windows 7 pro) to an external usb hard drive connected to our server (windows sbs2008). The backups run successfully, however i was wondering if there was a way to allocate the amount of space the program can use before overwriting previous backups without creating a partition to do so? It would be nice just to run incremental backups if possible, however i see no obvious signs to do so within windows backup itself.

Any help would be great.

Kind Regards,

Matt

Nevram · 15 Feb 2012 at 10:29

bump

philhoole · 15 Feb 2012 at 12:02

I don't think Windows7 Backup can do differential/incremental backups to a remote drive on a network. I'm fairly sure it has to be a local drive.

It will only do full backups to a drive on a network is how I understand it.

ian54 · 15 Feb 2012 at 20:45

Windows 7 Pro will do incremental backups to a network as it would to a local drive, but every so often will perform a new full backup, I'm not sure how you control it but you can "manage" the backups and delete old ones via the backup/restore center.

Nevram · 16 Feb 2012 at 14:15

Yeah well after much frustration with this i've done the simple thing - and given up!

Would anyone please be able to suggest a free third party backup utility that DOES do an incremental backup to a network drive? or atleast one that i can manage to total size allocation?

thanks for your help

matt

monkeyspank · 16 Feb 2012 at 14:33

set a user quota on the usb drive ??

Nevram · 16 Feb 2012 at 16:11

so if i do that - will windows backup understand to overwrite the first backup it took? i'll have a look into this.. thanks for the suggestion monkeyspank

Nevram · 16 Feb 2012 at 16:12

i just told everyone in the office i said thanks to someone called monkeyspank, found it rather amusing