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The advantage of lower backup times comes with a price: increased restore time. When restoring from IconPackager
the most recent full backup as well as EVERY incremental backup you've made since the last full back
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For example, let's assume you did a full backup on Friday and incremental backups on Monday, Tuesd
restore your backup on Thursday morning, you would need all four backup container files: Friday's full
backup for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. By comparison, if you had run differential backup on Mo
then to restore on Thursday morning you would have needed only Friday's full backup plus Wednesday

Types of incremental backups

Block level backup - this type will back up only the modified parts of the file, instead of backing up the
files whith few changes.

Byte level backup - this type is similar to block level backup, but it based on the binary variation of the
backup. It uses the minimum unit to determine the part of the file to be backed up.

Reverse incremental - The reverse incremental backup method produces a backup chain that consist
set of reverse incremental backup files preceding it. Thsi way, the most recent restore point in the bac
and it gets updated after every successful backup job execution.

Multilevel incremental - this is a more sophisticated incremental backup scheme which involves mult
full backup is level 0. A level n backup will back up everything that has changed since the most recent
instance that a level 0 backup was taken on a Sunday. A level 1 backup taken on Monday would includ
Sunday. A level 2 backup taken on Tuesday would include only changes made since Monday. A level 3
would include only changes made since Tuesday. If a level 2 backup was taken on Thursday, it would
Monday because Monday was the most recent level n-1 backup.

Incremental forever - this type is similar to the synthetic backup concept. After an initial full backup, o
sent to a centralized backup system. This server keeps track of all the increments and sends the prop
restores.

Advantages of incremental backups

It is the fastest backup type since it only backs-up increments

Saves storage space compared to other types

Each backup increment can store a different version for a file/folder

Disadvantages of incremental backups

Full restore is slow compared to other backup types (you need the first full backup and all increm

To restore the latest version of an individual file the increment that contains it must be found firs

Backup4all supports incremental backups and offers a solution for the slow restore disadvantage.

To keep the number of stored increments to a reasonable value and reduce the size of the backups, B
"Limit the number of backups" and "Merge backups" that can limit the number of stored backups. The
internal merge to keep the number of stored incremental backups under the selected limit.

Incremental backup vs differential backup

The advantage of Incremental backup compared with Differential backup, is that only new and modifie
execution - no matter if it was full, differential or incremental) will be backed up. That will result in sma

The differential backup will always include all new and modified files since the last full backup, no ma
or differential backups executed since the last full. That will result in larger backups.
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As for restore, the differential backup is faster as it needs only the most recent differential and the ful
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Full backup vs. incremental backup vs differential backup

Because there are different scenarios and cases, all backup types are usefull in different situations.

The Full backup is the starting point and it includes all files every time. The restore is fast as a single b

The Differential backup type includes all new and modified files since the last full. They are larger as t
full. In case of restore, there are only 2 backup versions needed: the most recent differential and the m

The Incremental backup type includes all new and modified files since the last full, differential or incre
type. When you need to restore an incremental backup, it will take longer as all backup versions since
incremental will be restored.

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