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No need to spend 50 bucks. Free Macrium can do all of that - except incrementals which one should never use anyway.
Hi there
I disagree -- There's utterly NO REASON NOT to use incrementals -- do you for one minute think large organisations like Banks, Multi-National corporations etc really back up several PB (Peta bytes 1 PB = 1000 X 1 TB) of data every day.
By all means back up the OS as a full image - but other data - especially stuff that doesn't change hugely -- for example Music collections (You DO backup DATA as well don't you !!!) doesn't need a full backup very often - maybe in the case of things like Music - once in two months or even longer.
Restore is easy - just load the last full backup and then a decent restore program will prompt for the relevant incrementals that have been taken since the last full backup. I've never had a problem with this stuff -- and I certainly wouldn't want to re-rip several 1000 CD's (even if I still had them) or re-create large music libraries again - or photos / other important documents etc.
@WHS I respect your advice generally but I really think you've given some bad stuff here -- Incremental Backups are IDEAL in a lot of cases - you just have to know what to use them for and how to use them -- decent professional backup products don't have issues with these any more.
My only wish would be for Windows to incorporate something like the old IBM Mainframe GDG (Generation Data Group) labelling system -- for example Backup(-1) was the last backup prior to the current one, your current one was Backup(0) and the new one is backup(+1). After execution Backup(-1) becomes backup(-2), Backup(0) becomes backup(-1) and backup(+1) becomes backup(0). Simple, elegant easily manageable - but Windows isn't IBM MVS !!!!. Still your backup system will handle the catalog.
Cheers
jimbo
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