YOURAPP IconSelecting the type of backup

 

Selecting the type of backup in the Setup window.

There are several options that affect your use of backupList+. You first need to select which kind of backup you want. This will dictate which of the options are available in the Settings pane.

Regular Backup

This choice will use rsync to simply copy files from source to destination. Each succeeding backup will copy just the changed files. This will keep the files on the destination exactly the same as on the source. You can select options in the settings panel (see below.)

 

Incremental backup

Incremental backups create a complete snapshot of your source files in a dated folder on the destination. This is similar to time machine so you can go back to retrieve files from a certain date. Each backup only takes up the space of the actual changed files while the other files are copied as hard links to the originals (which take up very little space.) This means that the destination files appear exactly as the source files did at the time of backup. You select the number of incremental backups and backupList+ will prune the earliest backup when it reaches that number - thus maintaining the desired amount of snapshots at all times.

 

Full System Clone

This option will use rsync to create a complete copy of your internal drive, or any other volume or disk, to another disk or partition. Clones are great since if you have a drive failure you can be back up and running in no time with a complete fresh copy of your original System and personal files. Clones are also good when installing a new System or update as you can select the attached clone disk to migrate all your personal files from at the end of the System install process (you will be asked if you want to do that.)

 

Synchronize two folders

Does what it says. It will copy first source to destination and then in reverse, destination to source. This assure that the two folders are identical. Useful if you want to keep a folder in sync on another drive or network.

 

Read-Only Disk Image

This option uses the program diastolic to create a read only disk image of the source files on the destination. You can select options (see below) for the name, encryption password, or segment the image in the Settings Pane. You can also have backupList+ create a sparse bundle type of disk image which you set up under the options for regular or incremental backups (see below under Backing up to a sparse disk image.)

 

Once you select the type you then check the Settings window for any other options you will need

Settings will be different for each type of backup

See the following pages for the settings for the different backup types: