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<blockquote data-quote="danb" data-source="post: 939261" data-attributes="member: 62850"><p>Cool, thank you for the suggestion! I see exactly what you mean, and sure, we can add something like "Backup Once". But let let me explain a little about how the backup component of DD works, then if you think we still need to add something like "Backup Once", we certainly can. Also, keep in mind, you should be able to do your initial backup, then just set whatever folder you want to "Don't Backup / Protect Only". Then if you ever need to restore that folder, just change it to Backup Monthly (or whatever), then you should be able to restore those files. But yeah, that is exactly why I included that feature... like I have tons of mp3's and videos that I hardly ever add new files to, so for those I just set them to Backup Monthly.</p><p></p><p>So about how the backup component of DD works... since storage is transitioning from HDD to SSD, when building DD I optimized it for SSD. It obviously still works with mechanical hard drives, but it works even better with SSD's. For example, you know how you can read SSD's all day long without degradation? But whenever you write to SSD's they are degraded? Well, when DD backs up, it essentially reads and verifies the files first, and if the files are identical it does not overwrite them, it just moves on to the next file. So basically, I did everything possible to limit writing to the SSD. So I guess what I am saying is that if you set the protected folders you mentioned to Backup Monthly, DD is not actually backing them up, it is simply verifying that they have not changed. That way, you will know that each month they are verified. But if we need to add a Backup Once, we can certainly do that. BTW, DD is also optimized for SSD in that if you set the Backup Speed to Medium, Fast or Blazing, it will verify and backup in parallel, depending on how many cores your processor has. So if you have a pretty fast processor and fast SSD, backups should be extremely fast. Thanks again, please let me know what you think on the Backup Once!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="danb, post: 939261, member: 62850"] Cool, thank you for the suggestion! I see exactly what you mean, and sure, we can add something like "Backup Once". But let let me explain a little about how the backup component of DD works, then if you think we still need to add something like "Backup Once", we certainly can. Also, keep in mind, you should be able to do your initial backup, then just set whatever folder you want to "Don't Backup / Protect Only". Then if you ever need to restore that folder, just change it to Backup Monthly (or whatever), then you should be able to restore those files. But yeah, that is exactly why I included that feature... like I have tons of mp3's and videos that I hardly ever add new files to, so for those I just set them to Backup Monthly. So about how the backup component of DD works... since storage is transitioning from HDD to SSD, when building DD I optimized it for SSD. It obviously still works with mechanical hard drives, but it works even better with SSD's. For example, you know how you can read SSD's all day long without degradation? But whenever you write to SSD's they are degraded? Well, when DD backs up, it essentially reads and verifies the files first, and if the files are identical it does not overwrite them, it just moves on to the next file. So basically, I did everything possible to limit writing to the SSD. So I guess what I am saying is that if you set the protected folders you mentioned to Backup Monthly, DD is not actually backing them up, it is simply verifying that they have not changed. That way, you will know that each month they are verified. But if we need to add a Backup Once, we can certainly do that. BTW, DD is also optimized for SSD in that if you set the Backup Speed to Medium, Fast or Blazing, it will verify and backup in parallel, depending on how many cores your processor has. So if you have a pretty fast processor and fast SSD, backups should be extremely fast. Thanks again, please let me know what you think on the Backup Once! [/QUOTE]
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