Windows Backup to network share.

[Nevram]

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]

bump

 

[Nevram]

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

 

[Nevram]

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]

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