![]() One drive goes inside my PC, one goes in the BlacX drive mount, and one goes in a safe-deposit box at my bank. I use a BlacX box and a set of three 2TB USB disk drives. Sure, some will still place part of their binaries on the C drive, but I can find those easily. In addition, if my OS need to be rebuilt, or I need to re-install an application, I can do so with minimal destruction (just have to re-install the OS and any application that was on D) Furthermore, this setup helps me clearly identify which installed apps are where and what they are consuming. With this setup, the only thing I need to backup is what’s on E and F drive - which is far smaller and will help you setup your backup system. So any time I install a new application, I don’t use Windows default, instead, I use either D:\Apps or D:\Devs ![]() On the D drive, I have 3 folders, Apps, Devs, Docs. G drive (temporary stuff, including Windows page-file and all of its temp’s) What I have been doing for years (15+) is partition my hard-drive into at least 5 partitions:ĭ drive (for application installation only) Whatever backup solution you are using, you need to help it with your backup you cannot just tell it to backup all of your hard-drive. Thoughts on this? Or suggestions of an alternative to Carbonite that won’t result in unchecked consumption of C: drive space? The software does not seem to have any settings where one can specify that a drive other than C: be used for logging. I’m reluctant simply to delete the file, however, because I’m afraid that it might cause Carbonite to start over and throw away 1.5 months of uploading. It has entries such as 1330816462 # 7336:Backup progress: completed 1%, file counts last 1:41:31 A I’ve tailed out this log file and it doesn’t seem as though it could be useful to a computer program. I tried another couple of hours on hold with their technical support phone line, but never reached anyone with any technical knowledge. I spent two hours this morning in chat with Carbonite support (in Lewiston, Maine) and was eventually simply disconnected. WinDirStat (awesome free software) shows that this single carbonite.log file is now larger than all of Microsoft Windows 7. The seasonal pace of the backup isn’t a serious problem for me, but the fact that the software has built up a 31 GB log file on the C: drive is. ![]() ![]() ![]() After 1.5 months, Carbonite is about 74 percent done with the initial backup (about 300 GB total?). The machine has a 160 GB solid state C: drive and a 2 TB traditional hard drive. I decided to try out Carbonite for online backup of a desktop PC. ![]()
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