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PeteCress
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Posted - January 03 2015 :  14:08:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The scenario: User discovers that a document has been corrupted, but does not know exactly when it became corrupted.

Right now, the user has to keep mounting incremental backups one-after-another and checking for the file in question and then opening it to see if it is the latest "Good" version.

If they are on a monthly cycle (full backup on the 1st, incrementals on days 2-31) the user might have to mount/inspect up to 30 separate incrementals in their search - even though the document in question may have changed only 3 times during the month.

What would be a big help would be a separate application or some optional process within Macrium that would keep scanning all backups and maintaining a single list of all versions of all files.

For instance, if the XYZ.doc file were incrementally backed up 3 times, the list would show:

Doc Name.. mrbak Creation Date..File's Last Change Date
XYZ.doc....2014 11-23 05:45.....2014 11-23 13:02
XYZ.doc....2014 11-15 05:45.....2014 11-15 09:05
XYZ.doc....2014 11-02 05:45.....2014 11-01 23:15
---------------------------------------------------------

Now, although the user still has to mount the relevant incremental backup and open each copy of the file, at least they know which incrementals to mount before checking.

This would be a significant saving of man hours and an increase in accuracy.
Edited by - PeteCress on January 03 2015 15:34:51

Drac144
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Posted - January 03 2015 :  20:57:01  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Just to point out that if you have 30 incremental files, using a binary search (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm ) you would NOT have to check 30 files to find where the corruption started. You would need to check (at most) 6. Still not great but certainly better than the 30.

The above aside, I do think an option like you requested could be helpful in the situation you describe.
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