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Has anybody ever used synthetic backups or incrementals forever?
These vides explain difference.
Macrium Reflect v6 Animated Demo - Incremental Merge - YouTube
Macrium Reflect - Synthetic Full Animated Demo - YouTube
Yeah - even so, I feel incrementals forever seems to be the safer option as base Full image is never touched.
To me it seems a good strategy could be to use "incrementals for ever" with say 7 daily incrementals, but also do a weekly differential backup, doing a new full say monthly. Really depends hiw much granularity you require.
The whole idea behind incrementals for ever or synthetic fulls is that you do not need to keep doing full backups. For my PC, I keep the C drive lean and mean so doing so is rather a waste of time as a full backup only takes 10 minutes. I guess those tools are more geared for the corpy market.
I have an incrementals forever setup for some things. I also use File & Folder Backup for some stuff, as I remember reading somewhere, that if you have any files over 4GB, that's how you recover them (not images).