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| 679639 | 2008-06-18 00:04:00 | I have been using Cobian Backup (www.softpedia.com) and have a question about incremental (?) backups. Like most people, I have many gigs of photos and film clips and up until today I have let Cobian make a full backup of the photos on an external hd. What I would like to do now is to make backups of only recent photos. I have put all photos onto (duplicate) DVD's and do not want to store older photos on the external hd or pc hd's. Is there a way to get Cobian to backup only photos (or other files) after a specified date - without first making a full backup? If Cobian cannot do this, what program can? Freeware if possible, and one where it can make automatic daily backups. Thanks. |
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| 679640 | 2008-06-18 00:21:00 | There is the freeware drive image XML, which I use with the free version of syncback. I did a article on both here (pcsourcepoint.blogspot.com)... | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 679641 | 2008-06-18 02:36:00 | There is the freeware drive image XML, which I use with the free version of syncback. I did a article on both here (pcsourcepoint.blogspot.com)... I downloaded and installed Syncback but I do not see how it can back up only recent files - after a set day and time. It seems that ALL files in a folder must be backed up in full, with incremental backups after that. |
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| 679642 | 2008-06-18 23:39:00 | You can customise it, but not sure if for specific times. It may be in the pay for version. Though you might be able to use task scheduler with it... | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 679643 | 2008-06-18 23:49:00 | The whole point of incremental backups is to back up the difference between a full backup set and the current file state. As such, most backup programs are incapable of generating a partial backup without having a pre-existing full backup set to refer to. This may not be what you are wanting, but what about using Windows file search? Just search for all files newer than date x, then copy them out of the search window to wherever you want them saved. Note that this method does *not* preserve your directory tree structure. Alternatively, use Linux to do the job - it's more than capable of this task; a simple bash script and the 'find' utility should work perfectly. This method can retain your directory tree. |
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