Backup Scenario

[rhdinah]

I was wondering if this product allows the following backup scenario:

The user's hard drive is becoming full with photos and other things. She wishes to backup her documents to the backup drive to save all this material and then have the freedom to free files from her hard drive without affecting her backup drive. Then when more files are added to her hard drive she can back them up to the backup drive by manually running this product, resolving any possible file name conflicts. In other words her backup drive will contain more files than her hard drive. There will be a second drive that will mirror her backup drive for safety and redundancy.

Additionally is there something that can guarantee not using her mirrored drive as her backup drive? Please keep in mind that this user is not particularly computer savvy.

Thanks!

[superflexible]

Yes, you can have more files on the destination drive than on the source for the sync job. You would choose to copy only from the left-hand side to the right-hand side, for example.

In Standard Copying mode, the program will not delete any files from the destination even if they have been removed from the source.

Maybe you can assign a drive letter such as Z to the backup drive so that she won't accidentally use it directly. If it is a USB drive and the drive letter happens to change from time to time, you can refer to it via its volume label rather than the drive letter.

For example:

BackupDrive:\Data

instead of

Z:\Data

[rhdinah]

Great answer thanks!

One more question though: Should the backup drive have a file named DSC_0100 which was removed from the computer's hard drive and another photo was then saved to the computer's hard drive named DSC_0100 ... both of which would have different dates and most likely a different file size ... would the program do something to prevent the overwrite of the backup drive file with the same name? This is typically done by having names such as DSC_0100 and DSC_0100(2) ... is such a mechanism used in this software? In this case how would it differentiate between a file that has delta'ed and another one that is truly a different file, but had the same name?

Thanks for your advice!

[superflexible]

These two cases cannot be differentiated. As a resort, I would recommend to use the settings on the Versioning tab sheet to keep several versions of every file.

Maybe you can teach her to put new photos in new folders every time.

[rhdinah]

Sounds like a plan. Thank you!