Terry, When you do a full backup, every folder and file on the flash disk is copied to your card. If you do an incremental backup, only the files that have been modified will be re-copied, along with any new ones created since the last backup. An incremental backup is copied to the same folder you originally used for backing up. Here's an example.
You make a backup, and instead of letting the BN name the backup folder with the date as it wants to do, call it "backup". (I know, very original. <Smile>) After waiting a minute or two, the BN will announce how many files it has copied. The number might be 150, just for instance. It could in actuality be much smaller or larger. So you decide a day or two later that you want to do an incremental backup. You go to the utilities menu, choose backup, and press "i" for incremental backup. It will ask you where you want to put your backup, type in the same name you used last time. When it's done, the unit will announce something like "14" files copied. This means that you only modified or created 14 files since your last backup. Everything from the original backup is still there, only the new or modified files have been updated. Let me know if that makes more sense. Sarah -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:23 AM To: Braillenote List Subject: RE: [Braillenote] back up Sarah c.; Can you explain the difference betwence between the two back ups? Does each incramental backup have all your files or just the ones you worked on. If it is just the ones you work on, sounds useless for revising your files. You would not get all your files in the last backup. I hope I am misunderstanding something. terry Powers -----Original Message----- From: Sarah Cranston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:00 AM To: Braillenote List Subject: RE: [Braillenote] back up Terry, KS 7.0 is stored on the Keysoft system disk, there's no need to back that up. Your flash disk contains, along with any personal documents you may have created, your databases and games. When you back up the whole flash disk to your CF card, you ensure that if you lose a document or if a database gets corrupted, you can replace it. I do incremental backups every day, and I no longer worry about losing files or Email because I messed up my database. HTH Sarah -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 8:10 AM To: Braillenote List Subject: RE: [Braillenote] back up Irene; Is flash disk taking everything off the unit and copying it or is it just your files. I just got my MPower and want to put all my files on my cf card. Will flash disk include 7.0? Thanks. terry Powers -----Original Message----- From: Irene Sumbera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:02 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: RE: [Braillenote] back up Hi Angie, You have three options. Let's talk about the backup options first which are in your utilities area. As Joseph has mentioned there you will have the option to either backup fully, which you must first do if you haven't done this before. Go to utilities, pres b, your bn will prompt do you wish to back up or restore files? You then press b again. Bn will then say back up which drive. You can at this point press f for flash disk. It'll then ask make backup on which drive? You can then tell bn to do the backup on the compact flash card if you have one. Bn will ask which folder, I generally choose none and type that in, just because its easier than going through the tree view whenever or if ever I need to access these backed up files. You from there should be able to follow the prompts, if there are no backed up files in your none directory, you will get no prompts. When You want to do the process again next week, go to utilities, press b for backup, and rather than pressing b again, press I for incremental backup. Now you mentioned you wanted to backup your CF card? The best way to do this is by using active sync and backing it up onto your computer. If you don't have one of those I'd get another compact flash card and then back up the original cf card onto the new one with a PCMCIA card reader? I think that's what they are. You can slot your card into this and pop it into the PCMCIA slot. I hope this helps. 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