>>53741906
>not using magnetic tapo

>>53741906
Sounds like Windows isn't smart enough to do things that Linux has had for a long-ass time like copy-on-write. It's probably storing a separate copy of each file for each backup, even if the file didn't change that day, or even if only 1MB of a 1GB file changed.

I have a ~100GB folder that I pack up to a 500GB btrfs RAID1 array. Three months of weekly snapshots and it's used... 110GB, because the data doesn't actually change a lot. ZFS can do the same trick at much larger scales (hundreds of terabytes), and works on *BSDs, not just Linux. So either build a box with a proper OS, or accept that you can only keep one or two previous copies of your data, I guess.

>>53742031
WI down doesn't actually backup like that at all, OP's just an idiot

>>53741906
Make sure you are only keeping the most recent stuff.

>>53742058
I the files, and it does make a new copy each time even if there is no change..

wtf do i do

>>53742031
I don't think NTFS has copy on write.

>>53742389
You should be able to set it to only hold a certain amount of backups, like set the limit to 250gb or delete backups over a certain age

>>53741906
If you don't care about floss then crashplan has a very nice software package for backup.

>>53741906
I never backup any of shit in my computer and the only time when I lost something was when a hacker I provoked had "fun".

>>53741906
I just copy-paste files to my old ("internal") drives with an eSATA dock.

Keep at least 2 backups, wipe the oldest one every time I want to backup.