Did you mean:. Sign In. Diffrence between normal backup and copy backup. Dear friends I want to know the difference between normal backup and copy backup. And you please make me to know what is an online backup. Back to list. You need to log in to comment to the post Login Register. Notice: To protect the legitimate rights and interests of you, the community, and third parties, do not release content that may bring legal risks to all parties, including but are not limited to the following: Politically sensitive content Content concerning pornography, gambling, and drug abuse Content that may disclose or infringe upon others ' commercial secrets, intellectual properties, including trade marks, copyrights, and patents, and personal privacy Do not share your account and password with others.
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Below, we have highlighted some of the key differences between a backup and an archive and the critical common features which are important in both. A backup is a copy of your current and active data which can be used for operational recoveries if your data is lost or corrupted in some way. The main purpose of a backup is to restore your data to a previous point in time.
Archives, on the other hand, are intended to be used as repositories for data that needs to be kept for a long period of time but is not necessarily important for operational activities.
For example, data that must be retained for regulatory compliance may be archived but would not necessarily be suitable for backup. The data stored in a backup is a copy of the current and active operational data in use by a business.
This is one of the HUGE benefits of digital data. Once again a good article on probably the most important computer subject.
I have used Macrium Reflect for over a decade and have done weekly images…keeping the last three…zero problems and its saved my butt many times. I know its hard to keep pounding this subject into the less-informed but know that you probably actually get thru to a few more each time….
It only adds files to the backup, never deletes them. It only adds those files that have changed since the previous backup. I often get too technical when I talk and think I work with Civil Engineers. If there is a NEW file, that file has not been changed. As a recovering Civil Engineer, I feel it necessary to respond.
Your question is a good one as it implies that anything that does not exist prior to a backup is not a candidate for being backed up by an incremental backup. Sort of like a switch — light on, light off or wax on, wax off…. New files represent a change, yes. Maybe what Leo said was technical.
Software engineers create something from nothing. OK, I think I know what you mean, but come on! But this discussion reminded me of a related topic which should be mentioned when talking about backing up changes to a given file and versions of a file: If maintaining file versions is a real concern then you should consider a version control software AKA revision control software.
A version control software maintains versions of specific files, which can be retrieved independent of a massive system image backup. It can also offer features such as version comparison that can show you exactly what was changed from one version to another. As far as engineers of any type are concerned, they are very familiar with version control. Every document and design artifact they deal with must be versioned and the changes tracked.
When a bridge collapses everyone wants to know who changed what. Dear all, Many thanks for all the advice, my brain is now churning. I promise to read all the emails and learn. Stay safe. There is another reason to perform backups by creating images rather than by just copying folders.
After many years, the Windows Explorer file system in my Windows 7 computer contains many layers of folders and subfolders. The total number of characters in the names of the files in these layered folders and subfolders slowly builds over time as I keep adding additional subfolders. Without my realizing it, the names of some of the files finally exceeded the characters maximum allowable by Windows.
This is often the case with many dozens of files — too many for me to conveniently go back and individually rename them and all their antecedent folder and subfolder names with shorter names. Out of curiosity I tried using the EaseUS Todo Free backup program to copy them over to my backup hard drive as an image. That program obviously does things differently, as you have discussed, than a straight copy because the files with the names too long to be copied were transferred within the image with no problem.
Again it was able to perform the backup via copying without leaving any files or folders uncopied because of having names too long for Windows to make a straight copy. It would be nice to know how to do this since my Windows Explorer file system is rife with overly long-named files, preventing doing backups without leaving files uncopied and hence at risk when I do end up transferring folders onto different external hard drives in my system by straight copying.
Any suggestions for doing this might be appreciated by other readers, as well as myself, who have run into this same problem. Your best bet is to manually shorten some of YOUR top level folder names to get the overall path length to below characters. Do not change any of the Windows folder names. The moral of this story is to never store your personal files under any OS folders. This type of havoc has already occurred in Windows 10 when an update decided to delete some files under the Users folders.
Also, these OS folders are primary targets for malware and data thieves. One possibility is to move all your user files under a folder in the root folder. This will be your data partition and it can facilitate and better organize backups. Leo has never recommended partitioning the system drive. This article highlights the pros and cons. My personal reason for not partitioning is a non-partitioned disk makes better use of the space.
A very interesting discussion. But Leo why do you not explain why it is possible for Windows and i. Macrium Refect to backup files which are in use? And what happens to the file if it is modified after the backup started but before the backup finished?
Will it be backed up with its modifications or not? I sometimes have to reorganize my files on my different HD:s. Then of course I want to keep the creation date of all my files. I mean, nothing has happened to the files then just moved them to a new location The times stamps should of course then be intact.
This is very important if you search for or sort files with i. Windows Search resp. Windows Explorer.
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