Help Me Chose And Understand Backup Software

[Guitarman0]

O.k. I am sure that this has been posted 100 times but I am looking for something quite (I think) specific. I am getting a little confused with all the backup terminology so I would really appreciate some help.

Basically, I am looking for a program that will allow me to back up all of my files and every week I want it to back up what has changed since the last backup, but I also want to have it in 1 file so that if my computer crashes and I lose everything I will have a copy of my hard drive all in 1 file (i.e. so all of the latest files are in there so it looks exactly like my hdd did before it died).

I have tried using cobain backup 10 but I am finding it difficult to set up so does anyone else have any recommendations? I would really prefer it was free but if I have to I will reluctantly pay a small free.

Thanks for your help

 

[Guitarman0]

Thanks for the links guys. I will check them out tomorrow

 

[Guitarman0]

If you store the entire backup in one file, and then your one file corrupts, your backup is broken. One directory / folder is probably a better plan.

What are you backing up to? If it's an external hard drive, then the backup is only as recent as when you last plugged it in, and if it's plugged in all the time it's vulnerable to pretty much the same things as the main drive.

If you can face setting it up, rsnapshot with a read only samba share is very good.

Sorry, I did mean a directory, not an entire file