Backing up

[Joe]

Hi,
Can anyone help me? I have been doing a normal back up
once a month and a diffriental backup of the same
documets everyday. The problem is if something gets
deleted accidentally before the normal backup and then
the diffrental backup runs and i dont notice it until the
next day my data will be unabled to be recovered. I could
set the diffrental backups to not overwright the previous
days diffrental backup but this would take more disk
space which i simply do not have.
Could an incremetal backup solve the problem and save
disk space which a diffriental backup couldnt?

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Hi,
Can anyone help me? I have been doing a normal back up
once a month and a diffriental backup of the same
documets everyday. The problem is if something gets
deleted accidentally before the normal backup and then
the diffrental backup runs and i dont notice it until the
next day my data will be unabled to be recovered. I could
set the diffrental backups to not overwright the previous
days diffrental backup but this would take more disk
space which i simply do not have.
Could an incremetal backup solve the problem and save
disk space which a diffriental backup couldnt?

A incremental will be smaller, but you will need to store
many them, normally as many as the days between Normal backups.

You can compress the "backup folder" to save space.



Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com