What? CCC won't do incremental backups? It sure does, unless I misunderstand what you mean. I have it set to update my backup on an external drive weekly-- a fully bootable duplicate system. Then I have it update a user backup on a disk image on my internal hard drive twice a week. I have it set to archive the files that change-- it puts them in a date-stamp-named folder. But those I have to monitor that they don't build up and deplete the free space, so I'm about to cancel that on the full-system backup because there are so many meaningless (to me) system files mounting up. :-[ The user interface isn't perhaps the most polished and straightforward, but then backing is not simple unless you want what they give you out of the can! :-) Hope this helps. Ben Andrus In Montana, with right brisk autumn weather! :-) __________________________________________________ On 2010 Sep 22, Wed, at 10:12 pm, Geoffrey Heard wrote: > Thanks, everyone, for the guidance on backing up. I've have a WD > Passport 500GB (pocket size). I've partitioned it as I have the HD > in my machine nad made copies to two separate halves of the two > separate halves I have on the machine, using Carbon Copy Cloner. > > It seemed to me that it had no incremental back up capability. Am I > wrong? So I am trying out Deja Vu which definitely does do > increments (to the CCC back up, actually) ... although I can't see > how to turn that feature off, short of having it work to a blank disk. > > I'll see how that process goes. > > Many thanks again. > > Best regards, Geoff > > Geoffrey Heard > Publisher, Editor, Business Writer > The Worsley Press > > FREE bonus book offer. Get "How to make great ads for (sm)all > business" FREE when you buy "Success in Store: how to start or buy > a retail business, enjoy running it and make money" or "How to > Start and Produce a Magazine or Newsletter". Buy at Amazon or > www.worsleypress.com