Sync, full, incremental or differential
Hi,
I am not sure which would be best for my specific situation. I want to back up my Windows Live Mail emails and contacts to an external USB drive. I want my backup to contain my contacts and all of my emails from all of my folders. I understand that I need to make a full backup for this which is fine. But if I delete some emails from my Windows Live Mail on my computer and then receive new emails, I want my next backup to only contain my current state of emails. So should I just be using full backup all the time for my emails?
Also, I am not sure I understand what the difference is between incremental and differential. I have read about it in the help but don't understand. Does incremental only add the new or latest files while differential adds and deletes to previous backups, any added and deleted files from the computer?
Thank you.
Steve
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Sorry about the double post. I did not think that my first post went through.
Thanks for the reply Pat L. So let me get this straight. If I start with a full back up of my emails and then I delete a few emails and receive some new ones in Live Mail and then I do an incremental backup, once I restore my full backup and my incremental backup, will I have the same emails I had after I had deleted a few and received some new ones? The deleted emails were saved in the full backup but not in the incremental backup so will they be restored when I restore the full backup and the incremental backup? I do not want them restored but I also do not want to have to deselect them when I am restoring. I hope I am making myself clear.
Thanks.
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If you direct ATI to restore the incremental, you won't recover your deleted emails (the backups contains the data at the time of backup). If you restore the full, you can restore your deleted emails.
When you restore, you can choose the specific backup you want to restore up to. Let' say you wan to undelete a file. You could restore your computer to the last state, but then open the backup that still contains that file and copy it back to your system.
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Thank you very much. That explains a lot.
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