tag:ask-leo.com,2011://3/tag:ask-leo.com,2007://3.3146- 2011-11-22T22:50:05Z Comments for Which takes more disk space: backing up, or copying files? And how much? Movable Type 4.32-en tag:ask-leo.com,2007://3.3146-comment:30145 Comment from Nick Gimbrone on 2007-09-16 Nick Gimbrone Interestingly enough, it turns out that many other "documents" are actually already in a compressed format. For example, the internals of Word 2007's "docx" format are that it is actually a zip file that makes use of compression.

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 2007-09-16T17:29:16Z tag:ask-leo.com,2007://3.3146-comment:30144 Comment from Michael Horowitz on 2007-09-14 Michael Horowitz http://unspecified The term "full backup" refers to all your data files (however you define "all"). This is not to be confused with a disk image backup which backups up hard disk sectors rather than data files.

Replication backups are totally different from either full or incremental or disk image backups. They are, for many people, the best place to start because they are simple. See the free Replicator program at karenware.com as an excellent example of replication backups.

Never use a backup program that requires you to have the backup program to restore your files. If the backup program offers compression, only use it with standard types of compression such as zip or 7z.

If you're backing up a file while it's being used, you are making a mistake.

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