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robinh
July 14th, 2008, 09:57 PM
When doing backup using PE6 the first dialog asks for full or incremental backup. I select incremental.

On the next dialog I don't really know what I should be doing??? The manual just says:

"If you selected a hard drive, Backup Path specifies where the files will be backed up to an internal hard drive or network hard drive. To change the location, click Browse and select another location."

Should I create a sub-directory of the one holding full backup and specify that as the destination? That way I protect the previous backup. Else I don't really have an incremental backup as I could not roll back?

If I did not and put it in the same directory what happens? Does it overwrite the .tly file?

Confusing.

I use another backup program (ShadowProtect) that handles all this stuff nicely. Adobe should take a look.

NickLewis
July 18th, 2008, 02:56 PM
You need to put the incremental backup in a different directory, otherwise an error message will be issued and the backup will fail.

This is a confusing and badly documented process. Have a look at these notes (http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showpost.php?p=266637&postcount=3) I wrote some time ago.

Nick