TMetzinger
Final Approach
I'm looking for some backup software for my XP system with a feature set I haven't been able to find in any SOHO products so far. Here's what I do and what I need...
When I built my PC, I used Acronis TrueImage to take disk level backups of all my partitions and wrote those off to a portable hard disk. I take snapshots of these partitions once a quarter or if I make any major system changes, and they serve as my "disaster recovery" images in case a disk dies or the system becomes unstable.
I've been using the regular backup utility in XP along with the command scheduler to do file level backups of the system partitions and system state to a backup disk, with a full backup monthly and a differential backup every weekday. I rotate these files so I always have at least the last 30 days of backups on hand, and they serve as my "I deleted something I shouldn't have" or "I misconfigured something" protection.
The problem I have is that by the end of the month the differential job is backing up a whole lot of stuff every day, and I've considered switching to an incremental job instead, which would minimize backup sizes but make for a more cumbersome restoration process.
What I WANT is something that does what NetBackup does, and lets me write incremental backups every day, but keeps a catalog database and lets me either:
When I built my PC, I used Acronis TrueImage to take disk level backups of all my partitions and wrote those off to a portable hard disk. I take snapshots of these partitions once a quarter or if I make any major system changes, and they serve as my "disaster recovery" images in case a disk dies or the system becomes unstable.
I've been using the regular backup utility in XP along with the command scheduler to do file level backups of the system partitions and system state to a backup disk, with a full backup monthly and a differential backup every weekday. I rotate these files so I always have at least the last 30 days of backups on hand, and they serve as my "I deleted something I shouldn't have" or "I misconfigured something" protection.
The problem I have is that by the end of the month the differential job is backing up a whole lot of stuff every day, and I've considered switching to an incremental job instead, which would minimize backup sizes but make for a more cumbersome restoration process.
What I WANT is something that does what NetBackup does, and lets me write incremental backups every day, but keeps a catalog database and lets me either:
- Restore the system or a specific volume to a specific date (and it will use the full and all the necessary incrementals in one job)
- Search for a specific file name, and have it show me all the backed up versions of that file, and let me restore the one I want (by having a catalog of all the backups performed and searching across them)