Real Time or Continuous Backup Software?
Real Time or Continuous Backup Software?
A friend has asked me the following question. Can any of you help?
seacue
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Is there a backup utility that starts by creating a full partition
image on an (external?) drive and then keeps its backups up-to-date
by continually backing up files as they are changed? There would be
a default list of file types subject to these backups, editable by
user. Or maybe an exclusion list of file types NOT to back up. I'd want
a user interface that seamlessly integrated the partition images
and the later file-level backups. That way, if you needed to
restore a file that you had accidentally trashed or had become
corrupted, you wouldn't have to think about where you'd
find the latest intact version - in the partition image or in
later file backups. There would be issues of having multiple file
versions, but that's something that authors of file-backup
software have found ways of dealing with.
Shutting down the PC without disabling continual backups means
there is a high probability of interrupting a write operation to
the target drive. One should have a scheme to allow shutdown
without corrupting the contents of the drive used for the backups.