Will this product work for me?
I'm running Windows 7 with my profile folders relocated to another drive. On other drives I keep some data that is critical and some that isn't. There is around 1.5TB (lots of video and photos so not a lot of compression can be done) of it including the system. I have a 2TB NAS device in RAID1 where I'd like my backups to be kept. First of all will Previous Versions work in Windows 7 when I start backing up? Then I noticed that TI does a full backup and then incremental. I suppose it's block level so it won't eat up my NAS within a few weeks. Then again in Backup Scheme (I watched the video) it seems to be doing a full backup after a few incrementals. That's the old way innit? That won't fit on my NAS which is my main concern. Other thing is if a file gets corrupted during transfer will the verification mechanism pick that up?


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Previous versions works in Windows Vista and later when your backup runs so without going to your backup you just right click on a file and in Properties you can find previous versions of that file and restore them straight from there. As to verification the thing is I lost a lot of photos by running SyncToy. Basically I synced my photos folders with my NAS and some files got corrupted during transfer I suppose. Then SyncToy regarded the corrupted files as more up to date and put them back on my drives which is exactly what I want to avoid using a different backup solution. I appreciate that you can only test a backup by restoring it but in case of hundred's of thousands of jpeg files it wouldn't be feasible to check each and every one of them for corruption so at least a successful verification would give me some guarantee of having a good backup. I'm starting to think that syncing would be better than a backup in my case. Well at least for my photos collection.
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Previous versions works in Windows Vista and later when your backup runs so without going to your backup you just right click on a file and in Properties you can find previous versions of that file and restore them straight from there. As to verification the thing is I lost a lot of photos by running SyncToy. Basically I synced my photos folders with my NAS and some files got corrupted during transfer I suppose. Then SyncToy regarded the corrupted files as more up to date and put them back on my drives which is exactly what I want to avoid using a different backup solution. I appreciate that you can only test a backup by restoring it but in case of hundred's of thousands of jpeg files it wouldn't be feasible to check each and every one of them for corruption so at least a successful verification would give me some guarantee of having a good backup. I'm starting to think that syncing would be better than a backup in my case. Well at least for my photos collection.
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