There are three backup types (AFAIK): full, incremental, and differential. I use differential, which is a file containing everything that was different between the current state and the original. So when I want to restore I need the original and the latest differential.
If I were using incremental it would just be what had changed between incremental which would be a smaller size than the differential but when I wanted to restore I would need the original and every incremental. On Dec 12, 2007 6:53 AM, Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 07:45 PM 11/12/2007, Brian Weeden wrote: > >If you are looking to make backup images of installed OSes, I have been > >using Acronis Disk Image tools to backups images of my windows systems for > >about a year now. I made a primary image when I first installed and then > >once a week Acronis builds a differential for me automatically and I have it > >store them on a networked server, although it can image to CD/DVD as well. > >When I need to restore I pop the rescue CD into my computer, boot to it, > >connect to the network drive, and about 10 minutes later it is back up and > >running. > > > >It's not the cheapest software in the world but I find it simple and easy. > >Once I set it up the only problem I have to worry about is running out of > >space on my backup server. > > So you are backing up a single full backup at the beginning and then > differentials every week? Doesn't that mean you have to store every > differential back to the first full backup? What do you do about data back > up? > > T > > -- Brian Weeden
