2 hours ago
(10 hours ago)CDC9762 Wrote:(Yesterday, 01:22 PM)AlanNP Wrote: n8chavez@n8chavez and @admin have given good advice on this.
Thanks for coming back to me so quickly. I see what the different types of backup are now, and I'm in awe that the software can make these things. Am I correct in thinking a sensible policy would be to make incremental backups until the backup drive is cluttered with them, and then either merge or delete the lot and start again?
Alan.
My comment for data security is to never only have one complete backup, which can be a full, with any necessary differential or incrementals because your backup disk can fail totally or with a bad sector in the backup image file; even after the backup was created OK.
It's better to keep multiple backups on the drive or much better still, to rotate more than one backup drive.
Thank you for the advice, @CDC9762. I completely agree. When it comes to data security, you really can't rely on just one complete backup. My own practice is to keep one backup on a local disk and another on an external drive. That way, if one fails, the other is still available.