Backups in Vista - getting big?

> Yes, cumulative backups can take up a whole bunch of disk space. If you're
> interested in a program that will limit the backups automatically, you'll
> likely have to explore a 3rd party solution. I used to use SyncBackSE for
> this, but haven't been able to locate the appropriate commands in the latest
> version to perform "recurring" backups based on "day of week" or "date of
> month" - resulting in a bit of housecleaning each month to delete the
> unneeded backups.
>
> - John
>
> "TallMikey" wrote:
>

> > Hello, I have some desktops doing schedule Vista (biz edition) daily backups.
> > I believe that Vista will backup everything that you want the first time,
> > and then what ever you have changed subsequently. The problem is, won't that
> > take a ton of disk space? If a user has a 2 GB .PST for mail, and they use
> > it every day, it will take 2GB backup space (ok it may be compressed
> > somewhat) but still that will use up all of my backup space and make
> > administration quite difficult.
> >
> > Any best practices suggestions?
> > -Mike