October 21st 05, 06:42 PM
Hello,
I have a number of drives in my computer, and I have one drive that I
have decided to dedicate to backups. It has 200GB of space. I am
looking for a program that will allow me to do the following:
1. Perform automatic (scheduled) daily incremental backups of several
different folders and files on my computer (totalling about 150GB of
data).
2. Record a log of all files backed up and any issues that occured.
3. Will automatically remove files that have been deleted from the
backup file after a certain amount of time. EG. If file 'runme.exe' was
deleted on Monday, it would not be removed from the backup file until
Thursday.
Number 3 is the one I am having trouble with. I have found all sorts of
great programs that do number 1 and 2, but none that have the ability
to do number 3. Some of the programs I have found will remove files
from the backup that have been deleted, but they can only remove them
on the next backup, not give me a couple of incrementals before getting
rid of them completely.
Any advice/suggestions would be most appreciated!!
Thanks
I have a number of drives in my computer, and I have one drive that I
have decided to dedicate to backups. It has 200GB of space. I am
looking for a program that will allow me to do the following:
1. Perform automatic (scheduled) daily incremental backups of several
different folders and files on my computer (totalling about 150GB of
data).
2. Record a log of all files backed up and any issues that occured.
3. Will automatically remove files that have been deleted from the
backup file after a certain amount of time. EG. If file 'runme.exe' was
deleted on Monday, it would not be removed from the backup file until
Thursday.
Number 3 is the one I am having trouble with. I have found all sorts of
great programs that do number 1 and 2, but none that have the ability
to do number 3. Some of the programs I have found will remove files
from the backup that have been deleted, but they can only remove them
on the next backup, not give me a couple of incrementals before getting
rid of them completely.
Any advice/suggestions would be most appreciated!!
Thanks