Incremental file backup.

[bleev]

I'm using True Image Home version 11, and am wondering how to backup my files So they mirror each other. Let's say I do a full backup of my documents. Then I delete a file or entire folder and do an incremental backup A week later. If I were to restore using that backup will my deleted file and folder be also deleted When that backup is restored.

Point being is that I don't want to restore files and folders that I wanted deleted.

For instance, I did a backup of my music a couple weeks ago. Yesterday, I renamed an entire album and added more music. I would like to do an incremental backup, but am worried that my backup file will contain the renamed music as well as the originally named music. In other words, when I restore from that backup I will have two sets of the same album because I changed the album title.

Thanks to any help, you can provide.

[bleev]

Anyone have experience with this?

[DwnNdrty]

Try doing an actual backup and restore using just a few of the files/folders.

[Acronis Support]

Hello bleev,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/).

We are sorry for delayed response.

Please notice that when you restore a backup, the data restored will be the same that existed at the time the backup was created. In your example, when you restore a backup that was created after the folder was renamed, the resulting folder will be renamed as well.

Thank you.
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Marat Setdikov

[shieber]

But if you restore a backup created earlier, it will restore the the file as it was befreo being renamed.

Some options that might help:

IF you don't rename, then you can tell ATI not to overwrite files that are newer.

If it's a full backup, you can open the backup and delete from it the files you don't want to restore. This, makes an incremental that excludes the "deleted" file.