Backup software that updates the full backup?

[gamerxavier]

I've been digging for a backup software that fits my needs. I used the comodo backup. But, when trying to create a schedule it for some reasons makes another profile using a file name in the original profile and does not create any schedule. Not sure where this bug is from. But, nothing has fixed it. Even a complete resintall with revo. I've tried various other backup software. But, it seems none do this...

Anyways, the idea is the following...

Day 1
Full backup
Day 2
incremental backup
Day 3
updated full backup+ incremental backup

Basically, it merges the previous incremental backup automatically into the original full backup. Then creates a new incremental backup for the new or changed files.


Does this seriously not exist? There's no reason it shouldn't be able to open up the img and throw more files into it.
I know Aomei backupper has image merging if you buy it. But, I cannot schedule it nor does it work as I want.


Quite frankly I'd prefer software that doesn't need to create incremental and just updates the full backup.
The only reason I'm looking for software like this is because it compresses the backups as well.

 

[boosted1g]

Have you looked at standard version of macrium reflect?

What I do is I use syncback to backup all of my important files every few days, and then have macrium do a full disk image once a month. I then run a script once a month the removes all but the last 4 disk images so that I dont have TBs of backups.

 

[gamerxavier]

Have you looked at standard version of macrium reflect?

What I do is I use syncback to backup all of my important files every few days, and then have macrium do a full disk image once a month. I then run a script once a month the removes all but the last 4 disk images so that I dont have TBs of backups.

I actually just came across syncback pro today. I think this will do what I want perfectly.
I actually don't do any full disk backups. I want to keep very specific files and folders backed up and that's it. My system and can be redone at anytime it's not something I'm concerned about in 8.1 given the easy ability to refresh or restart the os.

I noticed that comodo backup got about a 15-25% compression rate on my media library. So, I'm hoping this software has similar results.
I'll definitely be buying sync-back pro shortly.

 

[boosted1g]

Might check the SE version to see if it has all your needs. Cant remember what the price difference is now.

I use SE, and you can also do versioning with it so it will save previous change to the file.

 

[gamerxavier]

Might check the SE version to see if it has all your needs. Cant remember what the price difference is now.

I use SE, and you can also do versioning with it so it will save previous change to the file.

The pro version is the only one with all of the compression methods. I want mad compression.

 

[gamerxavier]

I was clearly wrong Syncback is stupid as shit. It creates a temp file in windows to compress the data. This is the stupidest thing on the planet. By default it should not be doing that it should have the compression directly done on the designated hard drive.

On top of that the compression is horrible. I spend an hour compressing 75GB of music to see on the backup drive it read a 79GB file.
My other media folders also had similar results.

Is it really this hard to find decent software holy crap.

 

[gamerxavier]

It looks few backup software can meet your requirement. No recommendation. Suggest you try top 8 in the field. If you find the satisfied software, please let us know.

Here is the backup software review on toptenreview.

The problem is ultimately no backup has this feature. They all do incremental, differential, or full. All of which are not designed to simply update the base or full backup that was first done. To me this is something I'd expect to exist given the other options. But, It appears there is no software out there that can backup a folder and compress it whilst also updating that compressed folder over time instead of making various other backup files.

I know winrar can update and add files to it's archives. I know there's software that can do half of this and software that can do the other half. Which is where I've settled. So, why isn't this included in any of these major backup software solutions. I cannot image I'm the only person looking for this. The sad part it's probably just a few scripts away from being added to these programs as an additional feature.
Given Aomei has merging for their images I'm sure they can also create a backup method that simply updates the full backup.

But, I've given up. I've tried so many solutions and it doesn't exist apparently. So, now I backup with goodsync free version into use winrar compression.


I'll probably look into how to utilize windows scheduler and winrar and possibly scripting to create this method I desire. But, that will take time I do not have yet.

 

[digitaldoc]

I use Timeline Genie Free. As the others, it is an incremental backup, but it runs in the background and does not interfere with performance.

 

[paradigmArchitect]

If your going to try this manually, I've heard a command line utility called "robocopy" can be made to perform incremental and full backups. Maybe you could work this into a batch file, one for full and another for incremental. I assume you could also work compression into the scripts. You could then schedule them to run at a set time or trigger, or easily run them on demand.

If you choose to figure this out, I would be interested in hearing about it.