[Wolves] backing up methods
Mo Awkati
mawkati at yahoo.co.uk
Tue May 5 19:02:31 UTC 2009
>Hi,
>I've set up Simple Backup on my PC at home. It does work very well.
>You can see how many backups have been done by going to the restore
>app in the system menu. It will give you a dropdown menu of available
>backups.
>> I know it depends on th amount
>> of data, but we are talking about 4.5G of data, photos, videos etc
>Yes. Depending on how you set it up. If you did incremental backups
>then it will only copy and backup the changes since the last full
>backup. I think I have mine set to do a full backup every month, and
>incremental ones each day. This means once a month it takes a while
>(hour or two) to backup the entire hard drive, then each other day
>maybe 10-20mins.
>Hope that helps.
>Ciarán
I have had a look at the scripts, maybe I will have a go with them when I have more time.
I will use Simple backup like you suggested, that way it is only doing a small job at a time.
Don't why I didn't think of it!!
Cheers
Mo
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