Cobian Backup 11 (Gravity) • Re: Clear explanation of difference between incremental and differential in this case

1) You don't need to change from backup to incremental/differential. Incremental or differential backups will always make the first backup FULL for you automatically.

As indicated in the help file, the only difference between incremental and differential is one word:

Incremental - The program will check if the source has been changed from the last backup. If there is no need to copy the file, it will be skipped, saving backup time. The incremental procedure checks the Archive bit attribute of the file. You may want to manually reset the attribute to force a full backup: use the "Set the archive attributes" on the Task menu.

Differential: The program will check if the source has been changed from the last FULL backup. If there is no need to copy the file, it will be skipped, saving backup time. The differential procedure checks the Archive bit attribute of the file. You may want to manually reset the attribute to force a full backup: use the "Set the archive attributes" on the Task menu.

So the one will just copy the changed files. The other (diff) will copy all changed files SINCE THE LAST BACKUP.

Statistics: Posted by cobian — 18 Aug 2022, 23:26

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