On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 10:35:09 +0100, "Pete Bennett"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Something which should be dead simple but I am not sure the best way to go
>about it. I am running XP with two huge disks in the same machine. There is
>plenty of space on both of them. I want to configure XP backup so that the
>entire contents of disk C: are backed up to Disk F: and then a daily backup
>to ensure that if disk C: goes down (or I mess up some of the files on it
>such as my ACT! customer database), I can get back to the position I was in
>just before the last backup was run. I intend to schedule backups in the the
>middle of the night.
>
>I am presuming I need to do a one off 'Normal' backup followed by a nightly
>"Daily backup"?
There are Daily and Incremental backups, one will only backup all the
files with the archive bit not set, so each backup will do a backup of
the files changed since the day before, so it will set the flags.
In incremental, the backup backs up changes since the last full
backup, so will gradually get bigger.
>I am not sure what implications of setting the archive bit
>or not is? Also, how do I get back, say, the contents of directory c:\mydir
>from the backup if I need to restore it?
>
You need windows loaded and run NTBackup and select Restore from the
menu and pick up the .bkf file and restore contents to the orginal
location. (Assuming you are using NTBackup).
Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
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