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Super Flexible File Synchronizer Pro says Zaine

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zridling:
mouser's right. I'd love to see others provide mini-reviews of their fav sync apps. There seems to be a lot of good choices in this category.

tomos:
I've been using SFFS for years and it is a very nice application and works very well. Tobias provides great support and the product is being continually improved. I can't see where it does partial backups though and can't see how it can, as is?-nevf (March 27, 2007, 05:00 PM)
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For those who haven't found out whether Super Flexible File Synchronizer (SFFS) can do partial backups, or if it uses delta synchronization technology, see : http://www.superflexible.com/partial.htm

Basically : "In your profile, make the following checkmark: Use Partial File Updating, which is on the Advanced tab sheet in Advanced Mode."-Armando (April 11, 2007, 12:14 AM)
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does that mean that all your backups are then done using Partial File Updating,
or
can you have some backups done using Partial File Updating, and some done the "normal" incremental way (or just synched) as well

i.e. does the "profile" refer to everything or just a particular backup?
(havent tried it out yet ... must!)

[EDIT: presumably just to particular backup
yes,
going by Zaines review "profile" = one particular backup]

tomos:
Deltacopy is a reliable free rsync app for windows, and can do local as well as remote sync:

http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp
-nontroppo (March 16, 2007, 11:45 AM)
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i think I'm correct in understanding that this does "Partial File Updating" as well ?
and
"local" backing-up, ie to external drive or to different partition ..

yet, you ask -

what i really want however is rdiff-backup natively for windows (incremental backup with restore per delta) - anyone know of a package out there?-nontroppo
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I'm afraid
I don't understand the sequence between quotes one and two -
what is missing from DeltaCopy?

is it some restore functionality?

tomos:
as you can see, I'm thinking about this a lot   :D

as i say,
i will download the programme (SFFS),
but asking for help-advice again anyway ;)

With the "Partial File Updating" -
Lets say I do an incremental/versioned backup of a file every day using that feature.
Presumably I can go back to the version saved, say, 10 days ago.

Is this difficult to do - has anyone had any experience/s here or tested it in that way?

Armando:
With the "Partial File Updating" -

Lets say I do an incremental/versioned backup of a file every day using that feature.
Presumably I can go back to the version saved, say, 10 days ago.

Is this difficult to do - has anyone had any experience/s here or tested it in that way?
-tomos (May 08, 2007, 10:25 AM)
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When I tried the trial version, a couple months ago, it was easy to keep multiple backup versions Of each file.

My understanding is that partial file updating is only for synching.

But... try it and tell us.  :)

You could also contact the software creator.

P.-S. : everybody, check out these links :
partial updating : http://www.superflexible.com/partial.htm
Features : http://www.superflexible.com/features.htm
Restoring : http://www.superflexible.com/restore.htm and http://www.superflexible.com/restore.htm

(edit : added some links...)

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