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Backup Types

A full backup involves copying all files, folders, server data, and hard drives to provide the best protection but is very time consuming and requires more storage space. An incremental backup only copies changed data since the last backup and is quicker but can be time consuming to restore. A differential backup copies all changes since the last full backup and is faster than a full backup but requires more time and space than an incremental backup. Synthetic and forever forward incremental backups combine different types of backups to maintain efficiency and provide full restoration from the most recent backup file.

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Backup Types

A full backup involves copying all files, folders, server data, and hard drives to provide the best protection but is very time consuming and requires more storage space. An incremental backup only copies changed data since the last backup and is quicker but can be time consuming to restore. A differential backup copies all changes since the last full backup and is faster than a full backup but requires more time and space than an incremental backup. Synthetic and forever forward incremental backups combine different types of backups to maintain efficiency and provide full restoration from the most recent backup file.

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A full backup involves the creation of a complete copy of

an organization’s files, folders, server data and hard


drives.
PROS CONS

Provides full copy of dataset Very time consuming

Offers the best protection Requires more storage space


An incremental backup will only copy data that has changed
since the last backup.
PROS CONS

Takes minimal time to backup Time consuming to restore

Requires less storage space than full Need all the backups in backup chain
backup to restore
Similar to an incremental backup, a differential backup
copies all data changed since the last full backup.

PROS CONS

Can back up changed data to the same Requires more time and space to
convenient location as all new data. complete.
In a synthetic full backup, backup software takes the
previous full backup and all the incremental backups that
are created over a set period of time and combines them
into a new full, synthesized backup.

Forever forward incremental method keeps one full backup


file on disk, and then only incremental backups afterwards.

In this type of method, increments are injected into full


backup files, so the latets backup file is always a full backup
of the most recent backup.
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