250GB external HD - Acronis and growing file collection

Hello...
I am running Acronis TI V11 here on my home setup. Did a full HD
backup of my C drive, creating a disk image on a 2nd HD. A one off
copy of my system (which in the past has gotten me out of trouble
easily and quickly).

Now as an experiment I have attached a 250GB external HD (Hawkings
unit) which is networked to my system.

I have created another image on this of my C drive. Now I have two
disk images of a sweetly running WinXP pro system.

I then wanted Acronis to backup nightly my C drive, so I could always
restore my system with a very recent backup (instead of one a few
weeks old)

At this point I am not too sure if I went for an incremental backup
or a differential one!

Well besides the original backup I now have 8 (and growing nightly)
backups, and quite large files (from 200 MB files to 6 GB ones), at
this rate my 250 MB external HD will be full fairly quickly.

I was hoping that Acronis, besides creating the original backup, would
then produce another backup file that would be altered on a nightly
basis, instead of creating a fresh file each night.

I take it either my expectations were wrong, or I have not chosen the
correct backup procedure... or does it not work like this?

Thanks
.

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