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Is it possible to restore only changed/newer files from a incremental backup?

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I have made a full backup of a data partition and have several incremental backups of that partition. I only want to restore the changed and new files of certain incremental backups. I don't want to search manually for those files and select only the new and changed ones. That takes a lot of time. Is it possible to produce a list of all the new and changed files in a certain incremental backup so that I can select them for a restore? That would save me lot of time and space....

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Rensk...welcome to these user forums.

If your backup of a data partition is a disk/partition backup (not a file/folder backup), then I believe there is a way to do what you want to do.  If the backup is a disk/partition backup, you can "Mount" the backup which assigns drive letter(s) to the partition(s) within the backup.  Once the  partiton has a drive letter assigned, you can use xcopy to copy the files based on date/time stamp on the files.  Please refer to the link below:

"How to copy only new files AND only those that are modified after a certain date?"

Please note...I have not tried this personally, but it should work.

Regards,

FtrPilot

Natively, no Acronis won't do this, the other commercial home backup products out there won't either (if you find one, let me know, but they don't).

FTRPilot's xcopy work-a-round would do what you're looking for.  Alternatively, robocopy would to.  Both of these will look for newer copies of files and automatically overwrite older ones with newer ones.  Not a good idea to let this run on an entire disk though, but could be useful for say your music folder, or picture folder, or folder with documents.  Anythign that has settings, configruations, appdata, full user profile, applictions, or OS folders - best not to try this on.

 

FtrPilot and Bobbo_3C0X1. Thanks for your good advise. I wil trie this and let you know if it worked :-)

It works! XCOPY and Robocopy do the Job! I also tried the freeware version of XXCOPY. XXCOPY gives even more control:

  • Not only dates, also times
  • Choose which filedate is used for comparing (modified, created, accessed)
  • Flexible logging
  • Use max NTFS Pathlength of 32767
  • Very good documentation

Disadvantage: XXCOPY can't copy locked files and Robocopy does.

Thnx for the advise!!

Glad to hear it! Robocopy has been very useful for me. Just make sure your source and destination are set correct... I know people who reversed them and had the /Mir switch on so they mirrored the wrong direction and made a mess. I'm guessing you're using /s or /e instead though for this situation anyway? Robocopy /help will show all the possible switches... You can exclude certain files or folders, add more threads, throttle copy speed across a network, etc.

Rensk...I am glad this worked for you...and thanks for the feedback.