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More info?)
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:35:58 -0600, "Frank W."
<reply_to_newsgroup@please.ccom> wrote:
>So it only replaces folders that have been modified? (I don't want it to touch something that it doesn't
>need to.)
True Image only backs up changed files with the incrementals, and it
backs up everything on the full backups. The files are in the Acronis
..tib format, and you need to use True Image to recover them. If you
interrupt a full backup for whatever reason, your backup image is
gone, and the incrementals won't run until a full backup is completed
successfully. Interrupting an incremental will leave previous backups
intact.
If you want something that just checks certain files/folders and
copies to the latest version, Second Copy from www.centered.com is
very good at this. It's for file backup, rather than partition
backup, so it only copies what you tell it to, and keeps them as
separate files, rather than placing them in containers like the .tib
files.
It will also keep multiple levels of archives, so you can have it keep
the last X versions of a file if you want (up to 25, I think). It can
run once a minute to once a week or less. It won't back up open
files, and it checks the time/date stamp or archive bit to decide what
to back up, but if those work for you, it's very fast and effective.
I find it the best bet for backing up specific files or directories
where you don't care about the entire partition.
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