External HD -`Incremental backups`

I bought a 320G external HD - it works great and I have now initiated a regular Friday night backup plan for both iTunes and iPhoto - it does all this fine.
When I check the HD next day, I always see the initial `full back up` and also the last one (there`s only one `incremental`at the moment since last Friday was the first upload of the `plan`) I did which is listed as `incremental backup`. My question is, "do I need to still keep the previous (and full) backup after the last one has uploaded to the HD and if I don`t do I just drag ALL the superseded ones to trash" ?
Russell (Uk)

I just checked the help file and it states;
- Save space with occasional forced backups.
The first backup of a particular set of files is a "full backup" (all files are backed up). Subsequent backups are incremental—that is, only the changed files are backed up. Incremental backups take up less space than full backups. After you use Backup for a while, you may want to force a full backup so that you can delete incremental backups to save space.
From the sounds of it, each time backup runs the 'incremental' option you will be left with a new file and your original 'full back up' will not be updated. Considering that you have a 320 GB external HD I don't think that you'll be short for space doing a "full backup" every Friday.
I have the program backing up my entire home folder once a week. This includes my photos, itunes, and documents.
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