Cobian Reflector keeps the history of all your tasks backups on a
database. You can see them on the History tab on the user interface.
You can always restore your files manually by copying/unzipping the backup
files into the chosen destination. If the files are compressed/encrypted,
use the Decompressor tool that is
provided with the program to uncompress/decrypt the files first.
If your backup is set to Create separated backups,
every new backup will create a new file or directory with the same name,
but with the date and time of the backup as a complement.
For example: If the original file is My Documents.exe, and the backup is
set to "Create new backups with timestamps", every new backup will create:
My documents 2003-04-13 12;22.exe
My documents 2003-04-14 12;22.exe
My documents 2003-04-15 12;22.exe , etc
You can also add the type of the backup to the resulting names. That way
you will get:
My documents 2003-04-13 12;22 Full.exe
My documents 2003-04-13 12;22 Incremental.exe , etc
Now it's easy to maintain a limited number of copies of every backup and
delete the old ones. On the task options you can set that you want to, for
example, keep only 2 copies of the backup. The older backups will be then
deleted. You can always PARK a backup to prevent it from being deleted.
This is specially important for incremental backups when the first backup
will usually be full and the next backup only partial.