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Others are uk based and I'd suggest this over a local drive which can also die on u On Monday, 5 March 2012, Andrew Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. :) > > -- > > Andrew. > > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue > -- -- Martin Hepworth Oxford, UK -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-03-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
