Reduce the size of my BackUp folder

[Damian]

Originally Posted by NY Jester

I run backups on my machine weekly and save i to a 300GB external drive. The problem is, there is now less than 50GB left. Is there a way I can reduce the size of my backups - or compress the existing backups - delete them all together?

Thanks in advance.

Hard drives are so so very cheap now, surely, just buy another one?

You can get 1TB drives for about 70 bucks.