Daily backup settings recommendations pls?

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Pete Bennett

Folks,

Something which should be dead simple but I am not sure the best way to go
about it. I am running XP with two huge disks in the same machine. There is
plenty of space on both of them. I want to configure XP backup so that the
entire contents of disk C: are backed up to Disk F: and then a daily backup
to ensure that if disk C: goes down (or I mess up some of the files on it
such as my ACT! customer database), I can get back to the position I was in
just before the last backup was run. I intend to schedule backups in the the
middle of the night.

I am presuming I need to do a one off 'Normal' backup followed by a nightly
"Daily backup"? I am not sure what implications of setting the archive bit
or not is? Also, how do I get back, say, the contents of directory c:\mydir
from the backup if I need to restore it?


Thanks

Pete
 
Folks,

Something which should be dead simple but I am not sure the best way to go
about it. I am running XP with two huge disks in the same machine. There is
plenty of space on both of them. I want to configure XP backup so that the
entire contents of disk C: are backed up to Disk F: and then a daily backup
to ensure that if disk C: goes down (or I mess up some of the files on it
such as my ACT! customer database), I can get back to the position I was in
just before the last backup was run. I intend to schedule backups in the the
middle of the night.

I am presuming I need to do a one off 'Normal' backup followed by a nightly
"Daily backup"?
Click to expand...

There are Daily and Incremental backups, one will only backup all the
files with the archive bit not set, so each backup will do a backup of
the files changed since the day before, so it will set the flags.
In incremental, the backup backs up changes since the last full
backup, so will gradually get bigger.
I am not sure what implications of setting the archive bit
or not is? Also, how do I get back, say, the contents of directory c:\mydir
from the backup if I need to restore it?
Click to expand...
You need windows loaded and run NTBackup and select Restore from the
menu and pick up the .bkf file and restore contents to the orginal
location. (Assuming you are using NTBackup).

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/
 
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