Archiving data refers
to having multiple backup copies of your data that were made at various points
in time. This maintains a 'history' of your data. Archiving is often important
since not all changes are necessarily improvements. After toiling with a spreadsheet
for a week, for instance, we may come to realize that all we've achieved is
really screwing up the formulas -if only we could start over with last Friday's
version...
While ChronoSync has no intrinsic archiving capability, a certain degree of
archiving can be achieved by creating multiple Synchronizer Documents with the
same local target, but different remote targets. For example, suppose we needed
ChronoSync to maintain a backup of our "Critical Projects" folder. We'll keep
the backup in another folder called "Critical Projects (Daily Backup)". We then
create a simple synchronizer then synchronize upstream, "Critical Projects"
to "Critical Projects (Daily Backup)". This can be scheduled to run once a day,
keeping a daily backup of our work. Another Synchronizer Document can be created
to backup once per week. This one would have "Critical Projects (Daily Backup)"
as it's local target and another folder, "Critical Projects (Weekly Backup)",
as it's remote target destination. Thus, on any given day, a backup copy of
yesterday's work and last week's work will be readily available.
Multi-tiered backups like this can take advantage of file server's as well.
Perhaps performing the daily backup locally but the weekly backup to a file
server would prevent unnecessary use of hard disk space (at the expense of the
file server).