![]() It synchronizes files from one destination to another. However, we need to somehow tell copy operation to remove deleted files from the backup.Īnd this is what exactly Beyond Compare does. Let’s add one more file to primary drive: A,B,C and D. ![]() You create your first manual backup by copying files over. Let’s say you have files A,B,C on primary drive. This works only when you’re adding new files. Why don’t you just copy your files to the second drive? What if you want to access your backed up files without proprietary software? What if you have a second drive and want to keep a second copy of your data? What if you just want to protect your data? Frequently, this is an extra feature only available in paid versions. To get around this, backup programs offer automatic clean-up for archives or they merge them together. High compression is CPU intensive operation, meaning backup takes a long time to finish when running as a low priority background process or interrupts your work when assigned a high priority.Īnother issue with backup programs is that as they make more versions they keep the old ones and total size of your backup archives grows. To combat this, backup software usually provides some level of compression to reduce the size or archive. However, with this feature more space needs to be allocated for the backup and with a lot of changes in the data backup archive can grow in size. With versioning you can recover previous version. For example, you mess up editing a photo or your Excel table breaks apart. Versioning is a nice feature, you can go back to previous versions of your data. There is advantage to these proprietary archives, they usually support versioning and compression. What if you switch platforms and vendor does not provide compatible version? What if vendor goes out of business? How would you access your backup then? To get the actual data out, I had to start a recovery wizard and wait for it to open the archive. The only way to access the files was to download current trial version of the program, install it and only then I was able to open it. I had used one of the backup programs a couple of years ago and created a couple of backup archives with it. Why would perform backup with tool which is designed for something else? My answer is proprietary backup archives. So the questions is, how to use BC4 for backing up? And what are the advantages over traditional backup software? In my recent I shared with You, that I ditched all those proper backup programs in favor of Beyond Compare 4 (BC4).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |