Vist Backup

[Harmon Koeltz]

I'm sure this has been asked and answered but I'd like to know: When using
Vista Backup, are only new or modified files backed up? If a file has been
deleted from the computer (an email or a document, etc.) is it deleted from
the backup files?

Thanks

Harmon

 

[John Hanley]

As I understand it: Vista only backs up files that have been modifed;
however, most of your files actually do change between backups even though
you did not overtly change anything; things like your anti-virus program
marking the file as ok are enough to trigger the need to back it up again.
Therefore, ongoing backups are almost as large as full backups. Also -- a
deleted file on, say, the C: drive is not deleted from the backup; in my
case, the backup destination is an external hard drive which retains all
backed up files until I manually delete them from the backup drive. Does
this make sense?