Incremental back up software

mattyfez · 17 Mar 2019 at 14:19

Looking for some advice if possible.

I have a number of drives but I'm specifically looking at incremental backups for my system drive which is a 240gb Samsung, I've bought another 240gb Kingston which I was thinking of putting a clone on.

That said, now I've thought about it a bit more, I'm thinking about an incremental back up as that seems to make more sense than doing a manual clone every month or so. Mainly so I don't lose up to date game saves or mod configurations.

I have Windows and my games installed on the system drive, the other drives in my machine are just media drives that are disposable or otherwise backed up as they are not volitile in terms of new data being written to them.

EaseUS seems to have incremental backup in its free version, does this create a bootable disk image on the backup drive? Or do you have to mount the image some how?

I'm just thinking if my system drive totally dies, would I just be able to boot straight up from the backup drive?

Thanks.

Rannoch · 17 Mar 2019 at 14:21

Macrium Reflect.

Full or incremental images. Set and forget on the paid version. You can also insert Boot Menu or create a bootable usb device to restore.

https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/plugins/servlet/mobile?contentId=7736772#content/view/7736772

mattyfez · 17 Mar 2019 at 14:33

Thanks yeh I've used macrium free to do simple clones before.

I don't suppose any free ones will do an incremental bootable clone as opposed to a backup?

I don't mind paying but if there's something free that I can use, all the better. Ideally I want a bootable clone that's incrementally updated.

Rannoch · 17 Mar 2019 at 14:33

Maybe Veeam?

I don’t use it but have heard good things.

Rannoch · 17 Mar 2019 at 14:35

I have used Macrium to restore from an incremental backup. Backup files were on an internal ssd, took 10 minutes to restore. Life saver

mattyfez · 17 Mar 2019 at 14:43

Is that the paid or free version though?

I guess what I'm asking is if the system drive dies, I can remove it and boot straight back up from the backup drive, which is incrementally backed up say once a week.

Rannoch · 17 Mar 2019 at 14:47

Paid version.

You can’t do that with Macrium. You have to boot from a usb drive then restore from your backup disk to the new drive.

brendy · 17 Mar 2019 at 15:15

MS synctoys 2 if its a straight file copy without compression.It does one full copy then in future you can tell it to only copy changed files etc.

mattyfez · 17 Mar 2019 at 17:25

Thanks I might just clone the drive then and overwrite the clone with a new clone every so often.

Incremental would be better as fewer wrights as the drive is generally quite full.

Disco_P · 17 Mar 2019 at 21:18

Veeam does incremental, I am using it atm.

Danny75 · 18 Mar 2019 at 12:50

Use Syncfolders myself. The Back-Up option which changes the Target Folder to the Source Folder, but also with rule to hold onto deleted files for 1 day before purging. Got it set to activate every three hours but you can choose whatever time as well as how long to hold onto deleted files.

sityeuropa · 20 Mar 2019 at 22:42

GoodSync is good.