New Macrium Reflect Updates [2]

kado897 said:

Yes, The image formats have not changed. The free version doesn't handle incrementals, just full and differentials so in that case I would create new rescue media and it will be good for restoring the old images as well as any new ones you create. You should have no problem creating incrementals based on a full image made with the free edition provided the definitions are the same. MR is very good at deciding what it needs to do if you try to make an incremental or differential and there is no compatible full image. It will just create a new full image instead.

Which is the difference between incremental and differential?
I believe that incremental it adds the differences of the system from the moment of the created image, instead differences option?

donnje said:

Which is the difference between incremental and differential?
I believe that incremental it adds the differences of the system from the moment of the created image, instead differences option?

A Differential contains all changes made since the initial Full image. If you then make a second Differential it will be larger, as it will include all the same changes plus some new ones.

An Incremental contains only the changes since the last Incremental. Each subsequent Incremental can therefore be a lot smaller than making a new Differential.

To restore a Differential image you need the Full plus one Differential. To restore an Incremental you need the Full plus all the Incrementals.

donnje said:

Which is the difference between incremental and differential?
I believe that incremental it adds the differences of the system from the moment of the created image, instead differences option?

I've always found these pictures help:

Farvatten said:

I've always found these pictures help:

What happened to Saturday?

One very essential difference between Incremental and Differential is that you cannot lose or delete any of the sequences in Incremental From the time of a full Backup when it doesn't bother at all to do the same (lose or delete) a sequence in Differential. That is the reason why, I always prefer the latter even though it can take more storage space. I always feel more secure this way. A matter of preference or choice...

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Sorry, I didn't see that @Bree had explained the same thing in post # 1403.

Cliff S said:

Saturday is when you to reinstall Windows fresh, because an incremental or Differential got corrupted
(I always make full images of my boot drive, Libraries, personal folders, and virtual machines are on other drive, and backed up to OneDrive also.)

I was hoping for a real answer