Backup Forum - Backup4all

Hello, Backup4All 7 latest update. A Smart Backup job is set to run at 20:00 & perform backup as soon as possible if a backup was missed. Allocated size is 5 GB. Target network drive is usually available 16:00-24:00 on workdays and 8:00-24:00 on weekends. My question (log at the end of this post): W...

[quote=Support post_id=4936 time=1551080615 user_id=54] Hi, The most recent Full backup type is always kept. Only the next Incremental and Differentials executions are merged. [/quote] The last Full may include already changed file (or may not include the file at all!). The point is to ever keep the...

Hello, Please add option to always keep the first backed up version of a file. This is important, when obtaining an original is hard, and changes are easy to re-do and can irreversibly modify the original. Think of a photography or music - shooting a photo or recording a music piece requires much wo...

But the file added on Tuesday, when 1st backup was done on Monday, will not be in the first full backup, right? On Friday its 4th version would be created and backed up - will 1st version from Tuesday be preserved in such a case?

If I set up daily incremental backup keeping 3 file versions, 1st run on Monday and a file added on Tuesday and changed every day - will I have original version of the added file next Monday?

Hello,

Is this possible to set up b4all to always keep first version ("original") of a file. So for example 1st version and two last versions are kept?

Hello Is this possible to define Source paths using wildcards, fe. C:\Users\*\Documents to back up documents for all users on a machine? Similarly, is it possible to use such paths in plugins - for example to back up browser config for all user on a machine? This enables defining sources once for al...

Hi, Say I would like to backup some application data for all the users on a computer. The data are in C:\users\*\appdata\Roaming\Softwarename How do I define source for that? And another question: What is Include/Exclude filter priority in Edit Source dialog of the pluigin creator? Is it "backup all...

Hello

I need to move backup source directory to another drive (drive letter changes).

How do I adjust backup definition, so that an existing backup can be used?

When I execute Test action, does B4A check contents of the files, using some hash?

I've had some problems with my backup drive, and now I am running Test, and I would like to know, if Test reliably assures, that every bit of the copies are OK.

Regards,