Hi - Newbie alert (although not to backup types etc). So I have been using the product for a while (after ditching acronis due to restores hanging repeatedly for machine migration). I like that you see what is going on and have good control. So a 1TB laptop backing up to a 1TB external Disk (USB3) all good. Using - Paragon Backup and Recovery™, version 10.1.25.348 (10.10.14 ) Home. External Disk is bitlockered (can't remember why, maybe Paragon can't encrypt backups??). First backup 21/03/2015. 11 increments since. pfi format, compressed. So after 11 increments, my external disk is getting full. So say I currently have weekly increments. logically I would want to delete a bunch of increments from say Inc 1, 3, 4, 7 (i.e. paragon merge them) and as the same files change, the overall disk usuage would reduce. The only options appear to be: - start again on a new disk with a new base - delete recent increments and carry on - reducing my ability to recover recent loses if they occur What is the best way to deal with the classic backup where you end up with Base backup + 1/4ly forever + monthly for the last 6 months, weeklies for the last 6 weeks.... TIA.
OK, I found a merge option, is this what I need to "compress 2 increments" into one? Also, in the docs found about being able to create multiple increment chains from one base. The trouble with this is that I would have to have a massive disk to achieve this, unless I span disks. I guess I could have: Disk OLD = BASE + 1/4lies Disk Monthly = BASE + Monthlies if I can merge in the oldest inc back into the base Disk weekly = Base + weekly if I can merge the oldest weeklies into the base? Aside: So just kicked off a new base on another disk and love the way is says "48 seconds remaining" on backing up what I know will be about 700GB of data and I know it will take about 8 hours or more.
