Seed for Incremental backup ?

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Louis75
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Seed for Incremental backup ?

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Hi
I am new to Cobian Reflector, I have a huge amount of pictures that is already backed up as a whole on external disk, I would just like to do an daily incremental backup of the changes on a local storage to keep recent changes and history.

My question is : Is it possible to do an incremental backup without having done a full backup at first ? Like having a seed before incrementing... By default the app seems to always do the full backup at first, which is too big for me.

For example by clearing the Archive flags ? By initializing a file of "already backed up files" somewhere ? By specifying a "horizon" for backups, like "take only what changed for the last x days" ?... I would be able to generate a file with a list of the directories and their content if needed...

Thanks for your help ! ;)
Louis
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Uncheck "First backup always full" inn the options.
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Re: Seed for Incremental backup ?

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Thanks a lot !

Indeed, in the global Tools - Options - Engine - I unchecked the "First backup always full" and the first backup did not make a full copy, it was just a reference for the following ones. Great !

Rdgs!
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:OK
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