Incremental backup backs up only new and changed files since last backup rather than the first. Therefore, as a rule, the differential backup takes up more space on the media than an incremental. But incremental backups more difficult to recover because you have to consider not only the first and the last backup files, but also all the intermediate increments. What type of backup you choose personally? There is no single answer. All depends on what is more important: convenience, speed, space-saving, or reliability. But back to Acronis True Image 11 Home and its functionality for file copying. Despite the fact that the possibility of copying the file in this program, Generally, we are well worth noting and obvious disadvantages, such as the inability to synchronize the folders, not very handy task scheduler, the lack of copy-SFTP, and pared down list of presets for download.
The program supports writing to the following media: HDD, JAZ, MO, ZIP, CD, DVD, USB, FireWire, LAN, FTP. The price of the manufacturer's site: $ 49.99 Paragon Drive Backup 8.5 As the name implies, this utility is designed to work with disk images. In addition, the program allows create a regular and incremental disk images, Drive Backup has two special features: Cyclic Backup – allows you to specify the maximum number of backups, or the maximum size that they can occupy on disk, then the new versions are no longer maintained and begins overwriting the first. Synthetic backup – allows you to edit already saved disk image: to change the compression to enable encryption, etc. .