Incremental backups with Backup & Restore?

[BradWaite]

Is there a canonical way to make incremental backups that permit a full restoration from a freshly-formatted disk?

I made a single system image, then set up B&R to backup all the files on all drives weekly. I can see the weekly backup directories, but they seem to be full backups, not incrementals.

I was able to restore from the system image, but I didn't see a way to restore the newer files. You can't do it from within Windows, since it complains as soon as you try to overwrite a system file.

Are you supposed to make weekly system images?

 

[SIW2]

I don't use it, but I believe the file back up function is intended for your user data files.

 

[kado897]

Is there a canonical way to make incremental backups that permit a full restoration from a freshly-formatted disk?

I made a single system image, then set up B&R to backup all the files on all drives weekly. I can see the weekly backup directories, but they seem to be full backups, not incrementals.

I was able to restore from the system image, but I didn't see a way to restore the newer files. You can't do it from within Windows, since it complains as soon as you try to overwrite a system file.

Are you supposed to make weekly system images?

Windows backup will by default create incremental type images is shadow storage. It allocates up to 30% of your backup disk for this. When that space becomes full it will delete the oldest. How often you backup your system is a matter of choice and how rapidly your system changes.

 

[BradWaite]

My backups are stored on a network drive. I thought shadow storage was on the local disk.

I have a single system image from Jan., with all my files being backed up weekly. How can I restore everything up to and including the last backup? I selected both of my hard drives to be backed up.

It doesn't appear that a system image and file backup are designed to be used together. Or am I just missing something?

Either way, what are my options, given I have an unformatted disk a system image from 6 months ago and weekly backups up to this past Sunday?

 

[kado897]

If your backups are via the network then you are limited to one backup with no incrementals. You need to restore the image first. This tutorial will show you how. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/675-system-image-recovery.html?filter[2]=Backup%20Restore. Then you can restore your files from the file backup.