Windows 7 FULL and DIFFERENTIAL backup
In XP I used to keep two copies of a COPY backup on my drive, so I could do point in time file recovery for stuff that changes. IT's helped more more than I can say. In Windows 7 it seems like everything is differential. I want to keep the last 2 weekly backups as copies -- how do I do this? This way I can go back to FILEX-1 and FILEX-2. It was fine in XP, now i'm stuck help!
November 13th, 2010 9:32am

Hi, Windows7 backup does not provide the differential backup functionality. So user cannot point the backup program to a full backup and ask it to do a differential backup (only the changes since the last full). Windows7 backup only provides an incremental backup functionality. And the incremental would be based only upon the most recently taken backup. However in your case, if you swap the backup target after every full, the next backup would be full every time. We hear your concern. We will take your feedback and see what we can do to best address in the future release. Regards, Leo HuangPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
Free Windows Admin Tool Kit Click here and download it now
November 16th, 2010 3:27am

This topic is archived. No further replies will be accepted.

Other recent topics Other recent topics