Roboform + non stop backup problem
Roboform technical support tells me that running NSB is causing all the problems on my PC. Such as freezing browsers when trying to save a bookmark. Anybody come across this yet? I really like NSB AND Roboform.
Windows 10 64bit Anniversary edition
TI 2017
I use roboform, but also don't use NSB so am not sure if this is an issue.
I don't see how that would be an issue though. NSB is using VSS to snapshot the system for backups so it is not dealing with any "live data". I'd be curios to hear robforms official technical explination of the problem. As far as full, incremental and differential backups go, I have no issues backinp up with roboform installed.
Thank you for your input. I do make full images every three days but that means I could lose three days worth of important emails in the worst scenario. As a workaround I have made a Files & Folders backup that activates every hour and uses Custom Scheme/Incremental/Create only incremental versions after the initial full version. This is the first time I have attempted to do this, are my choices valid and wise and a decent compromise instead of NSB? Will running a full image backup interfere with this backup?
The full and incrementals won't conflict. If one is in progress, the next one in line will queue up behind it run when the other has completed.
My only concern with never ending incrementals is that incrementals always rely on the backups before them. You're doing 24 a day, in a week that's already 168. In a month, if you have to rely on that backup, you're now close to 700 and this goes on forever - that's a lot of incrementals to depend on when you get down the road a month or two and you want to risk all of these incrementals being perfect when the time comes for recovery? Even though you have a full backup every 3rd day, this incremental scheme will rely on the original full and everything from the beginning to the end which is going to be a boatload of icnrementals. Acronis supports (allows is a better terminology I think) it, but from a data reliability scheme, it seems very risky.
Instead of incrementals for life, perhaps a backup scheme that does the same hourly file/folder backup, but with a full every day followed with 23 incrementals? You could then use an automated cleanup task and keep say 30 versions of that email backup (roughly a months worth), or as many as you need for your retention scheme? At the most, I would say at least do a full in your incremental scheme once a week to try and limit risk a little bit by not letting the incrementals get to some astrononmical #. 700 is a lot in it's own right and not something I'd personally be comforatble relying on.
Question on the emails... can you not use iMAP to keep those emails on the server as well? Are you using Pop instead, and if so, why not iMAP? How big is your mail archive currently?
Thank you Bobbo for your efforts. Very good point about the incrementals escalating out of sight, I shall forgo the incrementals backup. As my .pst file is important I think the easiest way for me to keep it reasonably current is to physically copy it across to my internal HDD whenever I think about it, no good making an automated task (even if I was able) because it won't copy unless Outlook is closed. Many thanks.