
Many people prefer to take full backups each time, but to only keep the most recent two or three in the series, to save space. However, with an incremental backup there’s an increased chance of failure should a corruption in one incremental file invalidate the whole backup. It provides both full and incremental backups the incremental option just copies the changes to files since the previous one and can save a lot of drive space. The program offers both system- and file backups, so you can safeguard your complete Windows environment, as well as specific drives, partitions, folders or files. O&O DiskImage Professional 8: system- and file backups Finally, you can create a virtual hard drive in one step rather than two, even if this is really not a mainstream feature. You can save a log of the backup job once run and these and the backup files themselves are named with the date and time of the backup, so are always unique.Īlso new, it’s now possible to trigger a job by connecting a device, such as a USB drive.

Improved for version 8 is a wizard for creating new backup jobs and this takes you steadily through the what, when, where and how questions before either running the backup directly or being saved as a backup job for future use.
