Acronis: Incremental backups.

[Winchester]

I did a full backup, then an incremental, so now I have 2 image files. What file do I select to do a new incremental file? Do I select the FULL backup or the previous incremental?

 

[Ryland]

You select the Full backup. All incrementals are diffs from the full backup, not from each other.

 

[Winchester]

I went ahead and did a new full backup since it had been 4 months since a full backup.

One annoying thing that I found is that the compression does not work. It said it would be ~5GB but ended up being 10GB, which was the normal file sizes.

 

[robphelan]

depending on what you're trying to compress, you won't get much smaller than they already are.

 

[Ryland]

Files like MP3's and JPEGS are already compressed. DOC's, excel, program files, etc can usually be compressed because of common data.