Solving Backup Problem

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Solving Backup Problem

Incremental backups are additive. If you delete a file from your Palmtop it is not deleted from your backup. The backup grows larger and larger and contains a lot of programs and files that are no longer valid. It becomes almost impossible to restore the Palmtop if that is ever needed.

One solution to this problem is to use the SYNCDIR program for incremental backups. It updates a copy on the flash card of the C disk, removing files that were removed in the source. A typical SYNCDIR command would look like this:

syncdr16 c:\ a:\_bak_c_ /a/u/dd/f/r/v

syncdir is public domain, and can be fetched from http://people.delphi.com/rrutt/syncdir.htm

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