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I do a full system (bare metal) backup every night to an external HDD. The results are in the image
It has always bothered me that it says "Incremental" next to C: and E:. As I remember one would do a full backup once a week and incremental in between. The restoration would be to restore the full then each of the incremental. But what I have here is having selected "Full backup". So, if tomorrow the server went up in smoke could I restore all data from the latest backup that I have here? I see varying totals on the backup amounts. Am I doing something wrong with this process?
Put another way, if drive E: failed and I restored the volume to a new hard drive would I get everything or just the files that changed the day of that backup? I mean if I put the new HDD in and did a recover operation and picked the 3rd option "Volumes" what exactly would happen? It states it would restore an entire "volume, such as all the data on drive C:". So what if files were on drive E: that had not been changed in 6 months, beyond the last backup, would they still be recovered?
Thanks.
Jim Θ¿Θ¬
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It has always bothered me that it says "Incremental" next to C: and E:. As I remember one would do a full backup once a week and incremental in between. The restoration would be to restore the full then each of the incremental. But what I have here is having selected "Full backup". So, if tomorrow the server went up in smoke could I restore all data from the latest backup that I have here? I see varying totals on the backup amounts. Am I doing something wrong with this process?
Put another way, if drive E: failed and I restored the volume to a new hard drive would I get everything or just the files that changed the day of that backup? I mean if I put the new HDD in and did a recover operation and picked the 3rd option "Volumes" what exactly would happen? It states it would restore an entire "volume, such as all the data on drive C:". So what if files were on drive E: that had not been changed in 6 months, beyond the last backup, would they still be recovered?
Thanks.
Jim Θ¿Θ¬
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