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With most backup solutions you can choose to back up all of your data (a full backup) or just parts of your data (an incremental or differential backup).
- A full backup is the most complete type of backup. It is more time-consuming and requires more storage space than other backup options.
- An incremental backup only backs up files that have been changed or newly created since the last incremental backup. This is faster than a full backup and requires less storage space. However, in order to completely restore all your files, you’ll need to have all incremental backups available. And in order to find a specific file, you may need to search through several incremental backups.
- A differential backup also backs up a subset of your data, like an incremental backup. But a differential backup only backs up the files that have been changed or newly created since the last full backup.
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