-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Incremental Back-Ups

If you cleaned them out after making the original backup, but you didn't 
clean them from both areas, they will still be in your backup.  Since 
there's nothing in the second backup to overwrite those files, they will 
still be there afterwards.

What you're suggesting is not necessarily a better/safer way of handling 
this.  By deleting the original backup, you lose the chance to recover any 
files you have deleted from the original between the time you made the 
present backup onward.  If you're absolutely sure that you will never need 
an older version of something in there, go ahead and delete the backup 
before replacing it.

However, if you're not sure, you have two options.  The first one I already 
gave you (overwrite and hope for the best),  The second would be to date 
your backups and use a duplicate detector to find and delete any exact 
copies from the older one.  The result would be that you will have a full 
backup of your Docs with the newest date and a second one holding older 
versions and other files that you had removed from the original Docs folder, 
just in case they are ever needed.  The older backup will likely have very 
few files in it (and probably some empty folders that can safely be 
deleted), so we're not talking about a big waste of space here.  If you're 
really adventurous, you can use a merge utility to compare older and newer 
versions of files to see if there's anything in the older one that you might 
wish to keep.  If not, toss it.

I just hope this explains more than it confuses the issue.       lol

Peace,
Gman

http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php

"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 4:38 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Incremental Back-Ups


> Let's see if I fully understand.  If I want an exact copy of my current My
> Documents folder I should delete the one in backups and then copy the
> current folder.  I am not sure this is necessary but it is good to know. 
> I
> did a little cleaning out of the saved greeting cards just to reduce
> clutter.  Those will be in my backup?
> Sandi 

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