Problem performing incremental back-ups with Windows7
PLEASE HELP! As a photographer I need to constantly back up my photo files. With Windows7, when I perform an incremental back-up from the source drive to the back-up drive an error message pops up stating “there is not enough disk space” to perform the action. Previously, I had WindowsXP and was able to perform an incremental back-up by using the “skip over” option and not just “overwrite all of the files” option. Does Windows7 have a “skip over” option when backing up? Please inform me on how to perform incrementally back-ups with Window7 with the issues I am having. Thank you!
June 21st, 2010 8:43pm

Try scheduled tasks and write a copying script.
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June 21st, 2010 9:44pm

That should be the best method to back up your files. However, your hard drive will be full in days. You may also consider to make script to delete old folders per several days. Arthur Xie - MSFT
June 22nd, 2010 11:29am

I wrote a script that keeps a weeks worth of backups and deletes the oldest each run.
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June 24th, 2010 6:58am

Thank you for your assistance but I have no idea how to write a script. I am very much a novice at this but never had this performance problem with WindowsXP, or any others before it, until Windows 7. I am hoping someone can PLEASE provide me basic step-by-step instructions on how to perform, what usually was a simple task, an incremental back-up using Windows 7. Thank you for your time.
June 30th, 2010 6:22pm

Here's a sample script you can modify and use with task scheduled tasks. rem incramental user account backup rem delete oldest backup set rd /s /q I:\backup\backup3 rem rename backup sets ren I:\backup\backup2 backup3 ren I:\backup\backup1 backup2 ren I:\backup\backup0 backup1 rem create latest backup set xcopy /y /i /e /c /h C:\Users\userfoldername I:\backup\backup0
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July 2nd, 2010 1:55pm

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