On the smaller end of the price spectrum - Retrospect does something similar - they call it "synthetic full" backups but its really just perpetual incrementals. Full or selective restores are the same as if you were working from a true "full" backup.
- Andy O. >-----Original Message----- >From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] >Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 4:19 PM >To: NT System Admin Issues >Subject: RE: Restores from Incremental backups > >To answer your query, software *can* make it easier. TSM (Tivoli >Storage Manager) does a perpetual incremental and it always, by default >shows you the most recent version of files available for restore. If >you want to restore a whole directory or drive, you just select it and >it will automatically restore it to the most recent versions of all the >current files. You don't have to know when the files were backed up or >worry about restore order at all. It also supports "point in time" >restores, where you tell it to restore it to the way it was at a >specific date/time. Again, the software handles selecting the right >files automatically. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
