-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Incremental Back-Ups

Yepper, it explains and I thank you for that!  I am not into "adventurous" 
but there may be some on the list who are so that will be good for them to 
know.
Sandi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 7:30 PM
Subject: -=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"
>

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