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Off Topic / Re: how does windows backup work?
« on: April 16, 2014, 06:04:56 AM »
Hey we just covered backups in my computer class last week.
A FULL (you have to choose to save 100% backup in options) will make a copy of your entire harddrive and everything that's on it.
You can set a "full" backup to do only Windows files and documents (i.e not backing up 100 gigs worth of games from steam).
The rasin your backup HDD is more populated than your main drive is because you most likely did not choose "Only keep previous backup" option. There could be other factors, like saving restore points to your backup drive or manually saving files there, but points are really small in size and you would know if you put any files on there yourself.
I forget what this type of setting is called, but you can set it up to do a full backup on Friday, and then only backup changed files every day until the next Friday. This is more failsafe then doing a single full backup every week, and will improve backup speeds (not on Fridays with full backups).
TL;DR:
No way a single backup is more than your actual drive, operator error.
A FULL (you have to choose to save 100% backup in options) will make a copy of your entire harddrive and everything that's on it.
You can set a "full" backup to do only Windows files and documents (i.e not backing up 100 gigs worth of games from steam).
The rasin your backup HDD is more populated than your main drive is because you most likely did not choose "Only keep previous backup" option. There could be other factors, like saving restore points to your backup drive or manually saving files there, but points are really small in size and you would know if you put any files on there yourself.
I forget what this type of setting is called, but you can set it up to do a full backup on Friday, and then only backup changed files every day until the next Friday. This is more failsafe then doing a single full backup every week, and will improve backup speeds (not on Fridays with full backups).
TL;DR:
No way a single backup is more than your actual drive, operator error.
