How are image backups better than file and folder backups? I'm looking for something that will allow me to backup certain files and folders in real time so the files are backed up immediately after they are changed.
Can Ghost do this? The image backup seems too cumbersome to do this type of thing.
Thanks,
BGC
HERE is a great post from Allen M regarding File and Folder Backup vs.. Imaging (Recovery Points). I don't think either will make a backup as soon as a file is changed. I prefer Recovery Points over File and Folder Backup. I start a new set monthly and run an incremental every evening. If I am going to install software or change drivers, etc., I manually start a backup.
You can set the backup job settings to start an incremental backup as a certain amount of data changes and/or I believe as often as 15 minutes. Alternately, you can always right-click the Ghost tray icon and manually start a backup.
I personally think that having many incrementals is asking for problems. If just one becomes corrupted, then that Recovery Point and all after it are useless. If you have an incremental every 15 minutes, that's 32 in 8 hours!
It almost sounds like RAID would be better for you. Another thing you could do is use Microsoft's Robocopy that comes with Vista and Windows 7 to copy certain folder(s) to another place. Robocopy is a command line tool, but HERE is a GUI for it. You could set up a task in Task Scheduler to run it for you. There are settings to copy only changed files etc.