Flashermac Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 I was startled to see that my D drive was now shown in red, since it was down to about 25gb remaining free. The reason was obviously largely due to the old computer backups. So a question: Is there any reason to save backups from several years ago? I doubt if I'll ever want to restore from back that far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 Biff 'em Unless you know that there's stuff on them you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted March 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 Thanks. It's what I figured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baa99 Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 The safest way to backup is to get an external drive. Only connect the drive while doing a backup AND nothing else. That way if you get hit by a ransom-ware attack, your backup will be safe. Just keep the last 2 backups. I also backup docs to a dvd-rom for longer term storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jantrevor Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 If you have Norton or a similar cloud backup there is no problem. Backing up to a flash drive, as I do, works well since 32Gig is a lot of soace. Otherwise you can delete old backups, I usually keep the last four and delete the rest. Tedious on my system since I have to do it one at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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