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Author Topic: Incremental backups are not incremental  (Read 12015 times)

rocaddict

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Incremental backups are not incremental
« on: September 14, 2009, 06:41:36 AM »
 The title pretty much says it all.

When electing to incrementally backup changes, the DNS-323 backs up all content anew every time, not just changes. ( resulting in a 2+ day (weekly) backup )

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zehninguem

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Re: Incremental backups are not incremental
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2009, 09:43:43 AM »
I created another tread asking about this same issue without answers until now.
Incremental backup is a must to those that don't want to use a RAID configuration.

Please DLink people ... can you give us some feedbak
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fordem

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Re: Incremental backups are not incremental
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2009, 10:06:44 AM »
Quote from: zehninguem on September 17, 2009, 09:43:43 AM
Incremental backup is a must to those that don't want to use a RAID configuration.

Just want to emphasize - backup (incremental or not) is a must - even for those who use a RAID configuration.
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RAID1 is for disk redundancy - NOT data backup - don't confuse the two.

gunrunnerjohn

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Re: Incremental backups are not incremental
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2009, 12:03:47 PM »
What backup application are you using?
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Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
Remember: Data you don't have two copies of is data you don't care about!
PS: RAID of any level is NOT a second copy.

rocaddict

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Re: Incremental backups are not incremental
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2009, 09:27:01 PM »
I am using the Scheduled Backup feature in the NAS.
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gunrunnerjohn

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Re: Incremental backups are not incremental
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2009, 06:58:20 AM »
Could the clock be off?  I haven't used that capability, so I don't know what impact it would have.  Where are you backing it up to?  Incremental is only for local backup to the other drive.  It's hard to imagine that taking two days, even with large drives!
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Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
Remember: Data you don't have two copies of is data you don't care about!
PS: RAID of any level is NOT a second copy.

acomp917

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Re: Incremental backups are not incremental
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2009, 07:15:05 PM »
I'm getting only a single letter (A, C, G) for some of my directories when using the local scheduled backup. Ever heard of that? I have a thread posted... waiting for an answer.
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