Backup types

[gary67]

I am in the process of setting up my spare computer to use as a backup location.
I have acronis true image which will do the scheduled backups nicely from my understanding of reading the help files I should do a full backup then I can do incremental backups to the same folder, only thing is it always creates a new file for the incremental backup hence over time my HDD will get full quickly.

What i want to know is there a free alternative that will backup my whole drive but always overwrite the previous backup? thus saving me space as I want to backup 3 computers to the drive I have spare.

:thanks in advance

[Blam]

Macrium reflect should do the job:)

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

Blam

[gary67]

will it always overwrite the older version? I thought true image would but i can't find anything in the help file that says it will. Think I will just try it out and see

[berryb]

In Acronis create 2 tasks. One a full backup to run weekly and the other to run daily set as incremental.

Every week you have a full backup and the rest are incremental. Issue is if the fullbackup fails and you need it then you loose the lot.

You can always double up the tasks.

[WarNox]

Why not just have one Full Backup per week and the rest differential, that way you only have 2 files. The full backup file and one differential that can get replaced.

[gary67]

Why not just have one Full Backup per week and the rest differential, that way you only have 2 files. The full backup file and one differential that can get replaced.

that's what I'm wanting so will the weekly full overwrite the old full backup?

:thanks I have answered my own question just wanted some assurance before I went ahead all good now

[zqwerty]

http://www.jumpingbytes.com/en/puresync.html