Incremental Backup and Restore - will outdated files...

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I don't do full backup all the time. I do incremental backup.

So if I were to delete files, do incremental backup, delete files, do
incremental backup..... when I do a restore, will the old old files
which I've deleted be restored ?

I'm using:

- Active Sync 3.7.1 backup
- PPC V 3.0.11171

Thanks.

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Is an "Incremental Backup" really a Differential?

By definition, restoring Incremental backups requires
restoring the last Full backup, then each and every
incremental until the latest.

Restoring a Differential requires restoring the last Full
backup, then a single Differential (which is the changes
since the last full backup).

In any case, for as small a device as a PDA it probably
makes little sense to do anything but full backups. You
should purchase large enough media to do full backups (my
recommendation) or make full backups to your desktop when
you ActiveSync.

Tony Su




>-----Original Message-----
>The incremental backup is supposed to mark those files as
deleted and not
>restore them. For my own experience, it does not restore
these files.
>
>--
>Helio Diamant - MS/MVP Mobile Devices
>http://www.pocketpcfreak.com
>
>
>"flahmeshess" <dingdongdingding@yahoo.com> wrote in
message
>news:587d1f91.0411142324.6c6235fc@posting.google.com...
>> I don't do full backup all the time. I do incremental
backup.
>>
>> So if I were to delete files, do incremental backup,
delete files, do
>> incremental backup..... when I do a restore, will the
old old files
>> which I've deleted be restored ?
>>
>> I'm using:
>>
>> - Active Sync 3.7.1 backup
>> - PPC V 3.0.11171
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>
>.
>

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Full backup using Active Sync takes very long !!

"Tony Su" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<166101c4cca7$a2f47130$a501280a@phx.gbl>...
> Is an "Incremental Backup" really a Differential?
>
> By definition, restoring Incremental backups requires
> restoring the last Full backup, then each and every
> incremental until the latest.
>
> Restoring a Differential requires restoring the last Full
> backup, then a single Differential (which is the changes
> since the last full backup).
>
> In any case, for as small a device as a PDA it probably
> makes little sense to do anything but full backups. You
> should purchase large enough media to do full backups (my
> recommendation) or make full backups to your desktop when
> you ActiveSync.
>
> Tony Su