Monday, March 12, 2012

the difference between differential and incremental backups

Differential backups were the next step in the evolution of backup strategies. A differential backup backs up only the files that changed since the last full back.

Incremental backups also back up only the changed data, but they only back up the data that has changed since the last backup — be it a full or incremental backup. 

While incremental backups give much greater flexibility and granularity (time between backups), they have the reputation for taking longer to restore because the backup has to be reconstituted from the last full backup and all the incremental backups since.

http://www.acronis.com/resource/solutions/backup/2005/incremental-backups.html

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