Looking for recommendations for backup software that will let me do incremental backups with ability for point-in-time restore. My backup strategy is going to be the following: For certain folders (eg ...

If I understand correctly, you want an infinite series of incremental backups, so that you can have a thousand consecutive incremental backups, for example. I like rdiff-backup. You can go back 500 ...

Full-file incremental forever, block-level incremental forever or source depulication? The best way to choose is to perform backup and recovery tests and evaluate the performance of each method. A ...

Your PC’s storage media is subject to malware and, on occasion, natural disasters such as lightning, fire, etc. — which is why formulating a backup strategy is critical for keeping your data safe. Our ...

Real-time or near-real-time snapshots, replication and continuous data protection (CDP) have become common methods of protecting data in the datacentre. But traditional backup, where copies of data or ...

For more than a decade, Rdiff-backup has been our preferred choice for developing Minarca Data Backup software, an efficient data backup process management solution tailored for system administrators.

In this discussion on incremental vs differential backup, we define the two terms using definitions that most people in the industry agree upon. There are complications in terminology, however, and we ...

The invention of synthetic full backups is one of the most important advancements in backup technology in the last few decades, right up there witih disk-based backups, deduplication, continuous data ...

The purpose of backing up business-critical data is to achieve fast backups and restores that are 100% accurate. However, IT administrators have had to compromise between speed and accuracy because ...

As humanity's use of all kinds of technology has grown, terms like backup are no longer unfamiliar to the majority of people. Of course, the concept of a backup existed long before it came to be named ...

MacFixIt reader Scott Rose reports a significant lapse in Backup 3.0 functionality -- the inability to automatically delete old incremental backup sessions when space is running. Scott writes: "We ...