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#1 OFFLINE   jsmoline

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Posted 23 April 2008 - 10:07 PM

How long do you suggest I wait before deleting backup files?
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Posted 24 April 2008 - 12:53 AM

Some people will say 3 days, whilst other will say 3 months so it's up in the air as to how long you actually want to keep them, i.e.; it's your choice.

In reality they are relatively small unless a plethora of fixes took place, such as on a system that has never had the registry cleaned. You could even ZIP the backups to reduce their size for keeping them longer.
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Posted 24 April 2008 - 01:09 AM

Keep them so long that you can really tell all works fine.

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Posted 24 April 2008 - 04:45 PM

View PostCeeCee, on Apr 24 2008, 01:09 AM, said:

Keep them so long that you can really tell all works fine.
Thanks for the info. I figured I should save them until I was sure all was fine. I just like to keep things clean.
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