Comments on: Full vs. Incremental vs. Differential Backups: Comparing Backup Types

By: Milo

Milo — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:06:28 +0000

my mail is up there……..

By: Milo

Milo — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:05:52 +0000

My mail is up there……….

By: VN

VN — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 05:47:48 +0000

Im having the same issue with that project. i could really use some help right about now. its been wrecking my head for a while nw

By: Milo

Milo — Fri, 31 May 2013 18:02:02 +0000

My mail is milo@netiq.sk get in touch

By: Unknown

Unknown — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:25:01 +0000

Guys, I need help with this as well. Any ideas on this?

By: Milo

Milo — Mon, 27 May 2013 12:15:01 +0000

Hi Collum, you must be my fellow OU student. Get in touch. We may discuss the thing.

By: Colum Wells

Colum Wells — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:10:04 +0000

Can you please give examples of data usage with each of the types of backup e.g. A backup done once per week using full on the first week, then incremental for 7 weeks thereafter. Using 25MB on week1 then various differences for each of the weeks. Can you give an example in a table? I am doing a project with Open university, and would appreciate your help!

By: james

james — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:26:48 +0000

This article describes full, incremental, and differential backups. The Backup tool in Windows 95 supports full and incremental backups. Differential backups are not supported.
Backup uses backup file sets to help you manage backing up drives, folders, or files. Incremental and differential backups rely on an initial full backup of the drives, folders, or files in question.

By: Lachlan Mulcahy

Lachlan Mulcahy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:09:08 +0000

Interesting distinction with ‘differential’ vs ‘incremental’, Baron. I had honestly not considered using the incremental backup feature of XtraBackup to ever backup the changes of anything other than your most recent backup, whether it have been a full backup or incremental backup.

In XtraBackup Manager I tried to offset the time spent doing say, a restore on Friday, applying each set of incremental changes one after another since the full backup on Sunday, by providing a “materialized backups” feature, whereby XtraBackup Manager always maintains a fully materialized “restore” of the latest backup you took, so all the restore would require is copying that data to the restore target, not applying all the deltas. This is obviously at the expense of storage space.

I might have to consider adding another “Backup Strategy” to XtraBackup Manager that uses the differential method, rather than incrementals…