L
leew [MVP]
Guest
Re: NTbackup
RichGK wrote:
> On 14 Apr, 22:25, "John Smith" <securit...@gmail.com> wrote:
** snip **
>>> Here is the issue how do i setup if possible NTbackup so that it will only
>>> use a certain amount of drive space so that it doesnt fill the drive
>>> completely and when ntbackup fills its allocated space it will
>>> automatically
>>> start writing over the first file it created. Kinda like a DVR for a
>>> camera
>>> system.
>
> I don't think ntbackup will do this as it really goes against the
> whole idea of a backup. Why would you want to have files overwritten?
> This would render the backup useless in my opinion.
>
> You'd be better off the make sure that the media you are using (disk
> file, tape) has enough space on it for the backup. You can't know this
> exactly beforehand (well you might) but you can make a good estimation
> and use that.
>
> If you have 200GB to store and you only have 150GB of storage space
> then what you have to do is figure out what 50GB of the data you can
> do without storing. Otherwise purchase another drive.
Actually, if you setup a user account specifically for backups, apply a
quota to it, and then run the backups as that user, you should be able
to keep the backups from exceeding a certain size.
RichGK wrote:
> On 14 Apr, 22:25, "John Smith" <securit...@gmail.com> wrote:
** snip **
>>> Here is the issue how do i setup if possible NTbackup so that it will only
>>> use a certain amount of drive space so that it doesnt fill the drive
>>> completely and when ntbackup fills its allocated space it will
>>> automatically
>>> start writing over the first file it created. Kinda like a DVR for a
>>> camera
>>> system.
>
> I don't think ntbackup will do this as it really goes against the
> whole idea of a backup. Why would you want to have files overwritten?
> This would render the backup useless in my opinion.
>
> You'd be better off the make sure that the media you are using (disk
> file, tape) has enough space on it for the backup. You can't know this
> exactly beforehand (well you might) but you can make a good estimation
> and use that.
>
> If you have 200GB to store and you only have 150GB of storage space
> then what you have to do is figure out what 50GB of the data you can
> do without storing. Otherwise purchase another drive.
Actually, if you setup a user account specifically for backups, apply a
quota to it, and then run the backups as that user, you should be able
to keep the backups from exceeding a certain size.