Sorry for the OT, but I figured that if anyone knew about this, it would be
fellow programmers on the lists.
I'm trying to set up a more professional network at home (where I work),
including daily backups. I'm using the built-in Backup facility of Win2K. I
thought everything was going well, until this morning.
I had backed up (allegedly) three directories from a drive - great, I can
select which directories. Last night I had created some new files on one of
these directories, so I looked this morning to see if it had included them.
I looked at Restore, and sure enough, the subdirectories are there - great.
But when I came to look in those directories via Restore to select files to
restore... it said no files found. Not only that, but it also said that for
another directory that I KNOW it had copied files from, because I did one
manual backup to the same place yesterday afternoon and I SAW it listing
files it was copying - and the backup file has a significant size, which
implies that there is something there.
So where's my files?
The backup is set to Daily, which says it only copies files that are new or
have changed - fine.
The confusing thing is, it asked me if I wanted to backup now, or later, on
a schedule. So I chose Later, and set it to backup at 1am every day (this is
one of the confusing things - why did I have to schedule a task to backup at
1am every day when I'd already selected Daily - surely all I needed to do
was select a time and the rest should be automatic???)
Any info on how I'm supposed to set this up properly would be appreciated.
Also, if this doesn't cut the mustard, can anyone recommend some good but
not-too-expensive backup software which satisfies the following criteria:
1) It must let me choose which directories to backup, I don't want to
blindly back the whole drive up.
2) It must let me backup to a network drive, instead of insisting on a tape
drive or something.
3) It must let me choose which FILES to restore, so that I can restore a
single file or whole directory if I want to. If only one file gets corrupted
on the source machine, it doesn't make sense to have to restore the whole
directory since I lose more than I need to.
4) Ideally I'd like it to make it easy for me to backup to a different
target directory for each day of the week, and then start over, so that I
have a rolling backup system - that way, if I don't notice a problem for a
day or two it won't have copied the corrupted files over the good ones, I'll
have up to 7 days to correct the corruption.
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Jason Teagle
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