System image and free space

[NickC]

In my experience, despite what that article says, it will overwrite the old backup file unless you move it first. Even putting 26GB images on a virtually empty 1400GB drive did that.

Yeah, that's what you said at the beginning of this thread. Not sure if that's a bug in the System Image process or whether the Win 7 help is not written correctly.

Oh well, I can always do the folder renaming or just backup to different drives. They ARE pretty cheap these days!

[SuperSparks]

On my builds I always install 2 or 3 drives, plus an empty caddy. I use one of the internal drives for backup, and save an image to that. I also keep some bare drives as backup backup and archival storage, and just slam one of those in the caddy when I want to backup stuff to that, and create another image there at the same time. That works very well for me

[NickC]

I like that strategy!