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Win7 backups - doesn't remove deleted files from archive?
I've been scratching my head over the way Windows 7 backup handles incremental archives.
To demonstrate:
- Setup a Win7 backup to archive c:\test
- Copy foo.txt to c:\test
- Run Win7 backup
- Browse the backup archive via the Restore Files GUI to confirm foo.txt was backed up.
- Now delete foo.txt
- Copy a new file, blah.txt, to c:\test
- Run Win7 backup
- Browse the backup archive and note that both foo.txt and blah.txt exist in the archive.
Seeing as how I deleted foo.txt, my expectation is it should not exist in the most recent archive. It would make a restore difficult, if I had to go through the entire drive and clear old data after a restore.
My understanding of a backup is it should represent a snapshot of the source at the time of backup.
Am I missing some fundamental logic here?