I have prepared total backups for each of my logical drives. And, routinely, I do backups of the changed and/or new files. How often do you recommend that I discard these and do a new set of total backups? Or is this necessary?
The same applies to the emergency backup on a CD. How often should a new one be prepared?
Thank you.
Frequency of total backup
Backup frequency
Hi Dolph
There is no reason why a backup to CD-R or other 'write once' media should not be appended to forever. The only down side is the Backup Contents File will take longer to load as it grows. Other reasons why you may want to restart a backup are:
Emergency System Backup.
The Emergency System Backup should be used to get Windows up and running as quickly as possible. The only reasons to re-create this backup are:
Barry
There is no reason why a backup to CD-R or other 'write once' media should not be appended to forever. The only down side is the Backup Contents File will take longer to load as it grows. Other reasons why you may want to restart a backup are:
- You want to store the existing backup off site.
You have made major changes to the computer hardware so earlier versions of the operating system stored on the backup are incompatible.
Emergency System Backup.
The Emergency System Backup should be used to get Windows up and running as quickly as possible. The only reasons to re-create this backup are:
- Hardware changes make the backup incompatible.
AISBackup has been upgraded so the copy of AISBackup on the Emergency System Backup is not compatible with the ‘live’ backups. Backup’s made on AISBackup version 1.0.5 to 1.6. are compatible so you do not need to recreate the Emergency System Backup after upgrading.
Barry