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Hi. Apologies if this has been covered before. I just got true image. I'm getting confused with the different types of backup.

My needs are quite simple. I would like to back up to various USB sticks and portable hard drives.

In would like to do simple backups which just change the files which have changed since the last backup. Is it possible to do this automatically ? Is it possible to have simple versioning ?

Also if I ever I have to re-install a backup, I would like to do it as simply as possible and in one step if possible.

Aplogies if I'm being unclear but I'm used to using a simple backup (crashplan) and am finding the large numbers of options confusing.

Thanks

Richard

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As these are portable drives for data only, not OS, you need only files/folders type of backup. You can choose that option in ATI. You can create a backup task that makes subsequent backups as differential or incremental backups, which backs up only changes and takes less space than a new full backup.

But, you could alternatively do what you want via a file-based backup tool. I do something similar with Microsoft's Robocopy.

I backup my music files with Robocopy, which creates file-based backups rather than compressed archives. I created a batch file that runs Robocopy, comparing my music files with the current mirrored backup and then backing up only those new or changed, and deleted any that I deleted from the source. Robocopy is multi-threaded, and I specify the use of 16 threads, so it's quite fast especially on USB 3.0.

To backup my entire system including OS, such as for disaster recovery, I create full disk mode backups using ATI.