Safepoint/backup question

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This may seem an extrememly obvious question.

When creating a Safepoint on another drive, I assume that a drive with the same capacity as they one you are backing up is required?

Secondly,

Is there any way of creating safepoints onto a remote drive. Say, I install a suitable drive at a friend or relatives house?

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It only needs to be large enough to hold the CONTENTS of the drive, not the whole drive.

So if you’ve got 200 GB stored on the drive, then a 300GB drive would be fine to safepoint to.

I know of no way that a typical user could do a remote safepoint.   There are ways, but you’d likely need to have a VPN set up between the boxes.