Drive Snapshot

Not running.

 

I'll try that.

 

Before I run that. I just noticed that it had mover files and folders around.

 

Delete the 3 Entire folders.

 

It's running doing it this way.

 

I'll lose all my backups.

 

I moved the backups before I deleted the folders.

 

You must have had previous free sna in D:\System_Backup\Drive_Snapshot. They got moved to the Entire folders. One more batch file run and Entire-3 would have been deleted. Don't have any free sna in D:\System_Backup\Drive_Snapshot.

 

It just finished and it moved all my backups to a hadron folder.

 

Sorry, my mistake. The last line should be...

Code:

REN hadron Entire-1

Almost there. Delete the hadron folder.

 

OK. Running again.

 

Fingers crossed this will work. And also subsequent backups.

 

Lovely.
It worked.

I think probably 4 backups to keep would be OK considering that I also use IFW and Reflect.
And Snapshot backups seem to be smaller than compared to the other 2 backup apps.

 

Excellent. Make another backup and you will see two Entire folders.

 

4 backups...

Code:

IF EXIST Entire-4 (RD Entire-4 /s /q)
IF EXIST Entire-3 (REN Entire-3 Entire-4)
IF EXIST Entire-2 (REN Entire-2 Entire-3)
IF EXIST Entire-1 (REN Entire-1 Entire-2)
REN hadron Entire-1

 

Will that keep 4 backups at all time?

 

Doing one now.

 

You will always have the 4 most recent backups. When you make a new backup, the oldest one will be deleted.

 

Great!

 

If I wanted to save another backup number, how would I do it?
What does this line do? IF EXIST Entire-4 (RD Entire-4 /s /q)

 

The most recent backups are in Entire-1.
The oldest backups are in Entire-4 in the above code.

 

It has finished.
So, the latest backup is now Entire-1, and the older one is Entire-2.

 

Just keep running the same batch file. Easy.

IF EXIST Entire-4 (RD Entire-4 /s /q)
This line deletes the current Entire-4 folder. Then Entire-3 is renamed to Entire-4.

 

Correct.

 

OK. So, this would retain 5 backups.

Code:

IF EXIST Entire-5 (RD Entire-5 /s /q)
IF EXIST Entire-3 (REN Entire-4 Entire-5)
IF EXIST Entire-3 (REN Entire-3 Entire-4)
IF EXIST Entire-2 (REN Entire-2 Entire-3)
IF EXIST Entire-1 (REN Entire-1 Entire-2)
REN hadron Entire-1