norge49 Posted July 17, 2002 Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 Newbie to this product. I have v5.15. The program help and online help are not clear to me on how to do an incremental. I did a backup set with selected files and it went OK. How do I do a incremental now? The help says it will happen automatically, but when I click on either Selecting or Preview, it shows nearly all files as flagged to be backed up, including directories I excluded the first time. I know I shouldn't have to select files each time. All I want is an incremental backup of the directories/files I selected the first time. I'm sure it's something simple. Help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lv2ski Posted July 17, 2002 Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 You just run the backup again. The normal default is to only backup new and changed items when you run the backup again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norge49 Posted July 17, 2002 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 Thanks, Melissa. I clicked on immediate backup. Left Source C, Backup Set B (the one I did a couple days ago), left Selecting, Preview, and Options where they were, and clicked on Backup. It started it's and shows 3.4G "remaining". 3.4G is more than Set B originally was. I don't think this is incremental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lv2ski Posted July 17, 2002 Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 Had you went to preview and picked and choose files before....meaning you only wanted to backup a few things? or did you do your entire source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norge49 Posted July 17, 2002 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 Thanks for messing with me on this, Melissa. Yes, since I have 8G on my drive, I only selected certain files/directories/programs to back up so I could fit it on a single CD/RW (I have the Sony DD 1.4G drive). Maybe I'm misunderstanding incremental backups. Retro is selecting all the files in my root, as well as the Windows and program files, even though I didn't select them initially. It is showing the black diamond next to files that haven't changed, but then selecting many of the other files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lv2ski Posted July 17, 2002 Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 Ok... scenario : you pick C drive as your source. (your main hard drive) You then go to preview and pick one folder out of there. And backup. It scans entire drive, backs up that one folder and ends. Then you go to backup again. You pick the C drive as your source. (your main hard drive) You then DO NOT go to prieview. It backs up EVERYTHING in your C drive. OR Then you go to backup again. You pick the C drive as your source. (your main hard drive) You then go to preview and pick one folder out of there. And backup. It scans entire drive, backs up the changes or new stuff in that one folder and ends. does that help? This is what incremental is. Its incremental based on the same thing that you pick for your backup. Retrospect doesn't remember what you did under preview. Only what you did under Source. So if you want to narrow your source down to a bunch of folders....that may be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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