I had a client loose a hard drive, and he was using a backup program that didn’t let him know backups were being missed. His external hard drive came unplugged and there were no notifications. I setup Norton to do “Automatic backups” which I understand happen when the computer is not in use. My question is how exactly is it backing up files? If I make changes to a file, does it overwrite the older version? Is there a full backup, and then incremental backups to follow? Is there any file version control as changes take place, like a file2 next to file if additions are done, or does it overwrite the older file? Thanks!
Hi
Well, as you know the backups are done automatically, as far as the file versions are to be considered, it goes ahead and directly replaces the file if it has been changed. And more of all, the backup feature does not normally go ahead and backup the whole system as a priority, only if you go ahead and add that manually. So as far as file versions, the files to get replaced at the very same moment when a backup process is being done.