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Is incremental less reliable than a full backup? Incremental backups is the only thing I might use if upgrading to the pro version.
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New #1072
Hi,
Yes it is as it relies on all the incremental backups that precede it. If one fails then the entire back up is worthless.Is incremental less reliable than a full backup?
I'd recommend combining incremental backups with a full monthly one at least.
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New #1073
Not quite true. You need to go back to before the failed incremental, but saying that I use differentials more often than incrementals.
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New #1074
Hi,
That's true but it's still risky IMHO. Especially in the long run where people rely on incrementals for months in a row.Not quite true. You need to go back to before the failed incremental
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I also use a combo of full and incremental. Having a long string of incrementals can get increasingly risky, so I do fulls and only an incremental as a stop gap if I've just done something I don't want to lose. Like a few app updates, or some cosmetic changes. Then at the end of the day, my normal full. Not to be taken literally, but I use the incremental function as a kind-of "restore point" or "checkpoint". In either case, always with verify.
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New #1079
I use incrementals for daily back ups, differentials weekly and full monthly. I also if planning anything big like changing hardware, upgrading windows will create a full C:\ SSD Image.
All my backup are verified, I have the time for that.
Forever incrementals just don't sound like a very good Idea to me, too many things can happen and they do to all of us.
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New #1080
In this respect, differentials have a higher integrity inasmuch as each is self contained i.e. they are not chained like incrementals. Of course differentials grow as time goes on.
I guess the same is true with incrementals forever to an extent as the first "merged incremental" is effectively a differential file, and as time progresses it must grow but all subsequent incrementals in the "forever" chain will be lean and mean.
As I said earlier it seems to me (for me) a good strategy is Full monthly with 7 daily "incrementals for ever" and a weekly differential as a secondary backup.
Has anybody here ever actually used Synthetic Fulls. This seems to be more risky to me in terms of integrity?
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