Hello johnny, On April 21, 2004, 05:32, you wrote: jsod> Hi all,
jsod> I've always used complete backups. Partly because I don't understand jsod> how incremental backups work. If I work up 50 incremental jsod> backups and want to restore them all, is this process as tedious as I jsod> fear - that is, done one by one ? Or can it be automatized somehow ? jsod> Do they have any advantages apart from the obvious gain in time of jsod> execution ? What you are thinking is called differential backup. Incremental backup always backs-up from the last full backup i.e. to restore you have to run the full backup and the last incremental backup. The differential backup runs from the previous differential backup i.e to restore you have to run the full backup and all consecutive differential backups. However the differential backup is much smaller. I run a full backup monthly, weekly incremental backups (deleting the previous ones) and daily differencial backup keeping them for the week until the next incremental backup. The setting depends on your backup software. I don;'t remeber any longer exactly how I set them up years ago, but for the incremental backup you have to set the flags properly, for the differncial backup just the date change. You should be able to find out the details in you backup program help file. After some search I found this the best at that time: "Zip Backup to CD" http://www.dh.dk/zipbackup It is a shareware, I registered it, I am not sure anymore the cost but recall something in the range of 20-25 dollars. -- Peter Using The Bat! v2.10.01 on Windows 98 ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.10.01 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
