User manual
Table Of Contents
- Nero BackItUp Manual
- 1 Start Successfully
- 2 Launching the Program
- 3 User Interface
- 4 Back up Files
- 5 Backing up Files Again - Updating a File Backup
- 6 Backing up Drives
- 7 Specifying the Backup Target for File and Drive Backup and Starting the Backup
- 8 Scheduling Backups - Nero BackItUp Jobs
- 9 Verifying Backups
- 10 Restoring Files and Drives
- 11 Backup and Restore Tools
- 12 Nero BackItUp ImageTool
- 13 Other Operations
- 14 Options Window
- 15 Technical Information
- 16 Index
- 17 Appendix: Nero BackItUp File Extensions
- 18 Contact
Backing up Files Again - Updating a File Backup
With the Incremental backup type, all files that have changed in comparison to the last
backup will be saved.
With the Differential backup type, all files that have changed in comparison to the first
backup will be saved.
at you used for the old backup (Nero BackItUp
sc. You
can also back
Incremental ba
With the three Full, Incremental and Differential backup types, it does not matter which
medium you save the backup to.
You can, for example, use the disc th
automatically started a multisession disc) as long as there is still space on the di
up to a new medium.
ckup - compares the current data with the last backup
Differential backup - compares the current data with the first backup
Fig. 6: Th p
the data of the
s
kup was burned with the Update
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d for the Full backup. The full backup will be burned on the disc.
The following table pr on to he e the correct u for
you
e differential backup compares data with the last backup, the incremental backup compares data with the first backu
The procedure for the Update backup type varies depending on the medium to which you
will back up.
If you are backing up to a hard drive with the Update backup type, then
previous backup will be overwritten with the changed data. This means that older version
will be erased; access to older backup states will no longer be possible.
If you are backing up to the disc on which the last bac
backup type, then the procedure is the same as described for the Incremental backup. In
this case a folder will be generated in a new session.
If you are backing up to a new disc with the Update backup type, then the procedure is th
same as describe
ovides informati lp you determin pdate type
r application:
Backup type
Storage spac
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requirement for the
backup set
Effort involved
in restoring
Access to
older
versions?
Full backup Extremely high
low
Yes
Extreme
(only the current version is
required)
ly
Differential
backup
Medium
Low
(current and first version
must be kept)
Yes
Incremental
backup
Low
High
(all versions must be kept)
Yes
Backup update
to hard drive
(old versions
will be erased)
Extremely low
low
(only the current version is
required)
No
Extremely