Do I need to rebaseline periodically?
NO! This is one of the main goals of Backup for Workgroups – to eliminate backup chores. You are not required to rebaseline, although some people like to do this because it fits with their archiving schedule. Backup for Workgroups is designed to eliminate the need for frequent rebaselining. Traditional (tape) backup, creates an initial, baseline backup. And, after that first baseline backup, it chains incremental backups together – starting with that baseline backup and ending with the most current backup. As the chain gets longer, the risk to restoring and the efficiency of restoring decreases. This causes the need to rebaseline – because it shortens the chain. Because Backup for Workgroups uses a rolling baseline backup, the baseline is recomputed based on the most current backup; thus eliminating the risk to restore the most current version. Backup for Workgroups reverses the chain so that the most current is the baseline, and the trailing revisions go back in time. This allows Back
