Currently I'm doing a Full System backup once a month with Incremental backups weekly.
I've never used the File / Folder backup feature. But, now I'm thinking that I would like to backup some particular files / folders on a Daily basis. There's info that I would hate to lose in between backups.
So my question is: How do I set up the file / folder backup to run a 'base' backup once a month or week, and then do incremental backups of those specified file / folders on a daily basis? This would be going to another different external hard drive than the one I use for my 'regular' full system and incremental backups. Or, is what I want to do not possible?
Currently I'm doing a Full System backup once a month with Incremental backups weekly.
I've never used the File / Folder backup feature. But, now I'm thinking that I would like to backup some particular files / folders on a Daily basis. There's info that I would hate to lose in between backups.
So my question is: How do I set up the file / folder backup to run a 'base' backup once a month or week, and then do incremental backups of those specified file / folders on a daily basis? This would be going to another different external hard drive than the one I use for my 'regular' full system and incremental backups. Or, is what I want to do not possible?
Thanks in advance
Barb
Hi Barb, Let's try to keep it simple. You have one backup job doing a full backup monthly and weekly incrementals. Please don't touch that one.
You can create a second backup job to do folders and files that is independent of the first. I never use that feature but, if memory serves, that backup is 100% each time it runs. If this is the case, I would delete the old daily folder and file backups right after the new full backup run by the other job. Doing 100% backups can consume a lot of disk space in a short amount of time.
If there is an easier [read simpler] was to do this I'm sure that one of the 'real' experts will provide us both with that answer.
I do have 2 internal hard drives: 'C' for program files and 'D' for data files (word, excel, Music, Pictures, etc).
I'll have to give this some thought before I decide exactly what I plan on doing. In the meantime, I'll still keep my monthly / weekly backups but I'm also going to drag 'n drop to a USB flash drive any super important files I'm working on - just in case.
Once i've decided and if I have more questions, I'll be back.
Currently I'm doing a Full System backup once a month with Incremental backups weekly.
I've never used the File / Folder backup feature. But, now I'm thinking that I would like to backup some particular files / folders on a Daily basis. There's info that I would hate to lose in between backups.
So my question is: How do I set up the file / folder backup to run a 'base' backup once a month or week, and then do incremental backups of those specified file / folders on a daily basis? This would be going to another different external hard drive than the one I use for my 'regular' full system and incremental backups. Or, is what I want to do not possible?
