Value of keeping multiple days of Disk Images

[Magnum]

For 2 days this week, my house and my next door neighbor had a lot of "mini" blackouts.

Power company ended up replacing the transformer after telling me it would cost $50 if they did not find anything wrong.

It corrupted a lot of programs and I still occasionally find a new one.

So, I now keep at least 3 separate days of image backups of my main drive.
I used to keep only 2.

[Tedd]

It might be more efficient to have a less regular 'full' backup (every 3 months), and then regular mini-backups (every week) of just the data that changes regularly (specifically, your own files that can't easily be replaced.)

[dedndave]

i have been trying to keep my data files on a hard drive and/or partition, other than the boot drive
that doesn't work in all cases, of course

[Magnum]

It might be more efficient to have a less regular 'full' backup (every 3 months), and then regular mini-backups (every week) of just the data that changes regularly (specifically, your own files that can't easily be replaced.)

The freeware version doesn't let me do backups of just changed files.

[Tedd]

Not that it's something you couldn't easily write yourself.

Does it at least allow you to backup specific folders? Then you can just add your personal folders (mydocs, or even the whole user profile.)

[Magnum]

It just allows backup of the used space on a hard drive.

It only takes about 8 minutes for my main drive.