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| To prepare for a data backup, open Windows Explorer and go to your backup area. In the top level of the backup drive on this system, there is a folder called "backups" which contains all the Microsoft Backup files, and a folder called Mbackup, which contains copies of files from a daily scheduled file mirroring in Mehul's Backup. |
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| Putting all the backup files for a computer in one location helps you see a story of recent backup activity, as shown on the example system. Click on the "Date Modified" heading to place the files in date order, and you can see when the last full data backup was, and how many incremental backups have been run since the last full backup. |
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| Based on the information here and your level of system usage lately, choose a full data backup or an incremental backup to run next. If there are incremental backup jobs older than the latest full data backup, you can delete them. In the example, it has been almost a month since the last full data backup. So even though only one incremental backup has been run, it is a good time to run another full backup. |
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| Right click on the top level of the backup disk, and choose Properties. Use the information here, and the backup file sizes, to estimate whether you have enough space to do the type of backup you have chosen. If you do not, look for recycling you can empty, or other contents of the backup drive you can move or delete before going on with the backup. |
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