As far as the differential back-up. Do I need to do a normal one first, then change the job to differential afterward once the first normal back-up runs? It seemed that when I set the job us as differential, it took three hours but it ended up not copying anything over. Can anyone help?
Let me clarify. I had done a normal back-up prior while not at home. When I got home, I reformatted the USB drive, and then created a differential back-up job. While this was running, I added some subfolders to a source folder that was on the NAS. After the back-up was complete, like three hours later, all that showed up on the USB drive were those folders which were empty as I had not added anything yet. Shouldn't al least an entire back-up had occurred? Anyway, Overnight I again reformetted, and then ran a normal back-up, no issues, worked fine. Now this morning I changed that job to a differential which will run next week. Will this now work fine or have I set myself up for failure? Will the differential just add any new files and erase ones that may have been deleted?
Also, is there anyone who can help with Novastor? Their forums have not been so helpful. I am just trying to do a simple back-up and create a disaster recovery.
Anyone?