At 8:52 AM -0700 4/28/2010, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Apr 27, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Dan wrote:
This is why we recommend using CarbonCopyCloner for making backups.
It's "incremental" backup setting has options that let you keep the
old files around. That way nothing is lost.
Yes, and when you restore from one of those you spend *HOURS* pawing
through masses of duplicate files. I my case, I'd carefully
preserved all my data through two "Dammit I can't find anything,
time to clean off the desktop and re-arrange stuff" sessions.
It's a bit disconcerting to make a complete backup, knowing you have
just a handful of file and folders on your desktop, then restore
from the SAME backup, and suddenly seeing mounds and mounds of files
on the desktop. :-/
I think you're thinking of telling CCC to never delete files AND not
move (archive) modified or deleted files. In that case, you're not
creating a usable clone at all - just a big mess. Not sure why you'd
ever want to do that.
Done correctly, there should be NO duplicate file mess. Tell CCC to
do an Incremental, and check all three options. That way modified or
deleted files are moved to the incremental directory, and the main
clone is made to match the source exactly.
- Dan.
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