SyncToy with Incremental backups?

Vai · 17 Oct 2007 at 10:28

I love SyncToy, but wish it did Incremental backups, does anyone know of a tool which is very similar to SyncToy but with it?

Admiral Huddy · 17 Oct 2007 at 10:41

SyncbackSE

Brilliant backup software and only around £12. Awesome features..

sidethink · 17 Oct 2007 at 11:00

I really like this:

http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp

Built on top of a nix app called Rsync which is really powerful.

Avalon · 17 Oct 2007 at 11:28

If you're syncing files then why not try Robocopy ? It just copy's the data that's changed across, while it's not advanced enough to only do the bytes that change it does take a hell of a lot less time than doing a full backup.

sidethink · 17 Oct 2007 at 12:11

The Rsync based Deltacopy works on block level changes to individual files - its pretty efficient at keeping changing files in sync.

MarcLister · 17 Oct 2007 at 12:12

I thought Synctoy could scan a folder pair for changes and only copy the changed files? :confused:

bledd · 17 Oct 2007 at 12:21

yeah, use contribute mode in synctoy, it is incremental..

Vai · 17 Oct 2007 at 12:25

Avalon said:
If you're syncing files then why not try Robocopy ? It just copy's the data that's changed across, while it's not advanced enough to only do the bytes that change it does take a hell of a lot less time than doing a full backup.

I already use Robocopy to sync my files to my server when I shutdown

This would be used as an additional backup run once a week/month to an external drive I will keep at work.
As I only need ~30gb backed up, if I bought a 120gb drive I could keep quite a long snapshot history of my files with an incremental backup.

The SyncbackSE program looks quite good, and has a nice UI. Is it possible to keep the program on an external drive without needing to install it if I reinstall Windows?

[edit]
When I say incremental, I mean it would keep a history/snapshot of the directory's, rather than just sync to a folder. So I could view a certain date and see the files as they were at that time (revisions of documents and such). I might of used the wrong term to describe that.
Does