[kendon]

I am using Retrospect 6.1. and created a 7 day rotating backup -- when I did the first day's backup all the files I wanted, about 80 GB, were backed up to my external 465 GB hard drive. On day 2 instead of just backing up the changed files, normal backup, all the old files were backed up again, another 80 or so GB. On day 3 the same thing. I now have 267 GB on the external hard drive, at that rate it will be filled in another few days.
Where did I do wrong?
Thanks - Stan

[Mycroft_Holmes_MW]

If you have a backup set for each day, then you'll get separate backups for each day. This can be a good thing if you want to be able to go back more than one day. If you trash a file and don't realize it for a couple days, you can go back several days to recover it.



It sounds like you want to just have one backup set that gets run each day. So just make one backup set, that recurs each day.

[Link33]

Yeah it sounds like you have a separate backup running every day.
You want to setup one script that runs every day and backs up only the modified files. Easy Script does a good job of setting this up for you even if you want to specify a custom source and options.

Good luck,
Ian