What is the benefit of backup software backing your files and folders into a nonstandard file, instead of an exact file / folder structured list? I can see if the backup program is encrypting your backup, then yes an encrypted file would be done. But if you aren't encrypting your data why the file? I don't want a gob, I just want to open my backup drive and the backup folder and see a list of the files and folders it backed up. If I wanted to encrypt I would just do whole drive encrypting on the backup drive.
Also, when you backup to the file, don't you then have to use that same software to get the data back off the drive? In the case of a failure you couldn't juar can't plug the backup drive into the computer and browse the file / folder structure. Programs that backup to a single file frighten me. I feel much more comfortable with the other method of doing things.
So how do you guys do backups, do you backup to a single file containing all your backed up files or do you backup to a standard file / folder structure?
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What is the benefit of backup software backing your files and folders into a nonstandard file, instead of an exact file / folder structured list? I can see if the backup program is encrypting your backup, then yes an encrypted file would be done. But if you aren't encrypting your data why the file? I don't want a gob, I just want to open my backup drive and the backup folder and see a list of the files and folders it backed up. If I wanted to encrypt I would just do whole drive encrypting on the backup drive.
Also, when you backup to the file, don't you then have to use that same software to get the data back off the drive? In the case of a failure you couldn't juar can't plug the backup drive into the computer and browse the file / folder structure. Programs that backup to a single file frighten me. I feel much more comfortable with the other method of doing things.
So how do you guys do backups, do you backup to a single file containing all your backed up files or do you backup to a standard file / folder structure?
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