On 05/03/12 21:40, Terry Coles wrote:
So I'm looking for a good Windows Backup program than does incremental backups
(not sync) to external drives. My niece is quite switched on, so I'm sure
she'll get the hang of it without too much difficulty, but (like anything) if
using it is too clunky she'll stop. It needs therefore to be reasonably easy
to get working for a lay person and also to get data back when needed.
Any ideas?
Cygwin + rdiff-backup?
Can be run on demand from a shortcut or on a schedule.
IIRC, the syntax to create a backup is pretty much 'rdiff-backup $source
$destination'.
In case you haven't used rdiff-backup before, you'll end up with a copy
of the files which can be recovered easily using regular file-system
tools (the sync method you said you didn't want ;) ) but as well as that
you can recover to any point at which you created a backup, as it stores
diffs or similar.
Of course as it never deletes anything automatically the disk might run
out of space if there are lots of changes, but it is possible to remove
older backups somehow. I don't know how as I haven't run out of space on
my rdiff-backup target yet so I haven't needed to look up how to do it. :)
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