Ken,
This is why I highly recommend putting any and all backups on external drives. First, you can get a 1TB drive for the cost of a Dunkin' Donuts coffee and donut. OK, a little more.
Second, worse case scenario, you get an error message telling you there are two many backups. If you were only backing up the Nameofpractice.enc file (AARRGGHH!!), this would take about Just under 11 years, given your backup file were 250Mbs. All bets are off if you are backing up imported items. But, even if you weren't, they would have to go there.
I never think it is a good idea to store any patient data, whether live accessible data or backups on peer client computers. If possible, you want all your data (AC databases) and backups in locations you can monitor and have permissions on. Even an employee that can barely play Solitaire on the PC (check that, that seems to be a requirement), can copy and paste a .enc file to one of their thumb drives in case you one day terminate them.
I have one of these around someplace, but I am sure Indy can write you a batch file that will tell AC Backup to only allow five backups and delete the oldest one. This should be programmed into the program itself.
Short of that, make a 2GB partition on your drive that is specifically for these backups. Then, when it fills up, you won't lose speed on that computer. Now, I have to admit, I have not practiced what would happen if you backup to a full drive. Would you receive an error message or not. I do know that the message you receive in your inbox is a fairly thorough message. I can't see its telling you it was a good backup when it never happened.
HTH
