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Old 08-25-2024, 03:53 PM   #16
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My personal choice is a full backup on Monday morning kicking off at 01:00 (1am) with incremental backups at the same time Tuesday to Sunday. Those backups are stored on multiple devices and locations.

And don't forget to test your backup by restoring a file on a regular basis.

I know I am paranoid, I just don't know if I am paranoid enough.
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As to the OP; have your tried running [B
TAR[/B] on your library directory?
What is TAR?
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Old 08-30-2024, 11:50 AM   #18
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And don't forget to test your backup by restoring a file on a regular basis.

I tested my backup 2 days ago, and I wound up with duplicate docs, photos, etc. Obviously I did not know what I was doing. It took me hours to delete all those duplicates. So, how do I test the backup the correct way?
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I tested my backup 2 days ago, and I wound up with duplicate docs, photos, etc. Obviously I did not know what I was doing. It took me hours to delete all those duplicates. So, how do I test the backup the correct way?
By restoring a single file to a different location from the one where you backed it up from.
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What is TAR?
It's the archive utility found on unix and linux, abbreviation of Tape ARchive - that's magnetic tape, not paper tape.

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What is TAR?

Tape ARchive. A Unix/Linux tool for created archived and compressed files. You can guess how long it's been around from the name. See a TAR manual page for more information.
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It is also now available in W10 up via the command line. <who da knew >

it is found at
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It is also now available in W10 up via the command line. <who da knew >

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That's what I use to back up the config folder! The version disclaimer in my post was added because I found then that tar.exe wasn't available on earlier Windows versions.

For metadata backups I have a slightly different script that runs 7-zip on high compression level setting. And for libraries, I prefer FreeFileSync.
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For metadata backups I have a slightly different script that runs 7-zip on high compression level setting.
Personally, I prefer RAR for my backup archives - 7z does have solid archives (better compression), but I also like to have the recovery records and NTFS attributes.
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I just back up entire folders as they are, without compressing them.
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