On 21/07/10 03:27, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 07/20/10 10:15, Mister IT Guru wrote:
>    
>> I've been reading up on some of the new features, and one of them is a
>> base job. Do I need to do an actual full backup to create a base, or can
>> I make one from existing backed up data?
>>      
> You cannot, to my knowledge, create a base job from an existing Full
> backup.  The point of a Base job is that it should contain only
> mostly-unchanging files, preferably unchanging files that are common to
> a large group of machines.  For example, if you have a hundred Windows
> XP clients, and you start out with a Base job consisting of the complete
> install image for that machine before any users or user files are
> created on it, then all of those files need to be backed up only once
> for all 100 clients - and if the base install for those machines
> changes, say when Windows updates are applied or applications installed,
> then only the changed files need to be re-backed up, and only once.
>
>
>    
I was really hoping that that would not be the case :(

Now I'm wondering why a job can use itself as a base, if it suppose to 
be unchanging files?



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