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daily backup, or normal and then differential/incremental???
I have to backup a large drive of often changing data, of about 20gb on a windows NTFS partition.
I am often asked to recover files/folders for users who have accidently deleted them, and also obviously I would like to be able to restore the whole lot to another drive should a disaster occur.
which of the options in the windows 2000 backup utility should I use?
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I think you should use the option of training your users not to be so stupid, frankly. Tell them that backups are there to rescue their work if the building burns down, not to solve problems when they've deleted something they shouldn't have!
Executive Software has a program call Undelete which takes all deleted files and makes them recoverable. You can get the deleted files from there and not have to go to tape. Just monitor it closely so you don't use up all your drive space.
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Ive opted for weekly normal backup followed by a daily incremental.
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I was hoping for an answer that gave a reason for choosing one method over another, rather than merely a copy and paste from the help file.
Whats wrong the help file explaination. It tells what the difference are. There really isn't much that can be added to it or explain it anymore better than that. And I did give a personal opinion ony why I would use Incremental over Differential. Don't know what else can be said.