How to disable backups in Windows 7?

How to disable backups in Windows 7? To test Windows 7 built-in backups, I set it to backup my documents drive to my external drive each night. However, it did not simply mirror the files, as I expected, but set up a complicated set of archives, etc...
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"Can't you just disable the reminders about the backups in the Action Center?
Check out this post on How To Geek, many settings about the Action Center are explained.

In the Maintenance section, if next to Windows Backup, it says On, click to set it to ""Not monitored""."