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Originally Posted by progers
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I am currently using this soft. It seems to do exactly what it says on the tin. Thanks for the link.
ATM I am using Acronis version11 to make an Incremental Archive of my desktop's Active partition only and the complete HDD in my laptop as it is only 320GB. Using this method Acronis will auto-consolidate the incrementals always keeping at least one full backup image and a few incrementals to roll back to should the need arise.
Step by Step for above.
Earlier versions of Acronis can only accomplish this by use of the 3rd party app
Chain2 Gen scroll down to
How to do backup generations (GFS-Grandfather,Father,Son) with Acronis TI. (chain2gen)
While all this is fine for relatively small HDD's and partitions it is too slow and cumbersome for larger e.g. my desktop has a further 1.2TB to backup and maintain.
For this task Syncback seems to be doing a good job. Once the mammoth task of copying everything to your NAS is completed you can use Syncback to keep the source and destination synchonised. This only takes seconds provided you have not downloaded or moved any massive amounts of data. I have Syncback set to autoload and then to auto synchronise every 30 minutes. Syncback has a small footprint and hardly any impact on the system when it is working.