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I've got 2x 500 GB hard drives. I will use one of them, and the other one will store a complete backup which is regularly updated on a schedule...more than once per week.
I want to use incremental backups so that my hard drive isn't constantly churning...it seems wasteful to do a complete backup daily.
However, I can't have incremental backups building up infinitely...at some point they need to be consolidated. I was thinking it would make sense to do incremental backups every X days and then have the increments merged together into a consolidated backup every Y days.
Is there any software that can do that? I've looked at all the big things like Ghost, TrueImage, and Migo..but none of them explicitly note the ability to combine incremental and full backups in the way I'm describing.
I want to use incremental backups so that my hard drive isn't constantly churning...it seems wasteful to do a complete backup daily.
However, I can't have incremental backups building up infinitely...at some point they need to be consolidated. I was thinking it would make sense to do incremental backups every X days and then have the increments merged together into a consolidated backup every Y days.
Is there any software that can do that? I've looked at all the big things like Ghost, TrueImage, and Migo..but none of them explicitly note the ability to combine incremental and full backups in the way I'm describing.