Hi all,
New member here. I recently had to recover my machine from a rootkit infection. Tough going...and in recovering I wished that I had done a better job of backing up my computer regularly. I'm running XP Home edition with Ghost 14. I've read the backup schedule article which cleared up quite a few points but I want to make sure I really understand it so I can do a much better job of scheduling my backups.
I understand how to define a back up job (set to run monthly) with incremental backups scheduled every week as discussed in the article.
So, to double check, at the end of the month I would have ONE recovery point (set) that would include 4-5 backups (depending on the number of weeks in the month), right?
If I set the number of recovery points to save for this backup job to 6, would I have 6 months of backups on my machine?
If I had to RESTORE a backup, would I have to pick the base backup to restore first? And then each incremental backup? Or.....? How would I restore the most current month's backup job?
I know it's probably a simplistic question but I'd appreciate it if someone could explain this to me.
Thanks so much for the help....and any backup advice you can give me. :)
Doreen