I understand that and choose to take the risk because:
1) it's easier
2) To the best of my knowledge I have never accidentally deleted a file
I needed and
3) I make multiple backups but not at the same time. If I did
accidentally delete a file it would likely be on the previous backup.
Chuck Norcutt
On 2/27/2014 11:58 AM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> The mirror mode means if you delete a file on your pc accidentally, the
> copy will also be deleted.
> I use the backup mode - which does waste some backup disk space but an
> occasional wipe and resync will reclaim it.
>
>
> On 27 February 2014 00:09, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> I clone the boot drive since everything involving the system software
>> needs to be in sync. Cloning the boot drive makes a static image of
>> everything that's there... but at the cost of copying the entirety of
>> the drive when, perhaps, you only needed to copy 10%... if you knew the
>> right 10%. It's just easier to do the whole thing and swap bad drive
>> out the clone drive in for instant recovery if its needed.
>>
>> But images, emails, spreadsheets, other documents are pretty much
>> standalone. But, insofar as they're not independent, there's another
>> file somewhere with the same change date. Therefore, backing up with a
>> tool like SyncBack (looking only for those things that are new, deleted
>> or changed and copying just those items) will keep a backup drive up to
>> date. I use only the "mirror" mode of SyncBack which is designed to
>> make the backup drive a mirror of the drive being backed up.
>>
>> The same approach doesn't work for Windows files, probably due to the
>> structure of the registry. (perhaps the worst part of Windows)
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> On 2/26/2014 3:47 PM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>>
>>> I use Shadow Protect and do incremental "clone" additions for a few
>>> than re-clone everything. So many have a standard "Backup"
>>> as well?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
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