A full back up takes a snapshot of all the data on the selected folders, partitions or hard disks at the time the backup is performed, and saves it to an Image file. A full backup is always the basis of any incremental and differential backup. A Full Backup can be used to restore all the files and folders in its image, to the state when the image was created.
An Incremental backup takes a snapshot only of the changed and newly added files based on the previous related backup, be it a full or incremental backup. Data that have not changed will not be backed up. A Full Backup must exist as the start point of a series of incremental backups. A typical set would be, in time sequence: Full Backup, as basis Incremental Backup 1 Incremental Backup 2 .. Incremental Backup n All the image files of incremental backup series share a sequential relationship. All data can be recovered to the state when any Incremental Backup was done, by recovering the parent Full Backup, followed in turn by each Incremental Backup in between. If any one of the incremental image files in the sequence is damaged or missing, subsequent image files will be invalid. "Full Backup + regular Incremental Backup" is the most commonly-used backup scenario.you wanna to make a schedule backup or incremental backup, whatever, you can do them at the same time by using Windows snap-in function or other software(I use AOMEI Backupper). +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +----------------------------------------------------------------------
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