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which back up is better between incremental or differential?

what approach would you take and why?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    If you have the time and space you should do a complete backup.

    Here are the pro's and cons.

    Differential:

    Restore is faster than restoring from incremental backup

    Backing up is faster than a full backup

    The storage space requirements are lower than for full backup

    Disadvantages:

    Restore is slower than restoring from full backup

    Backing up is slower than incremental backup

    The storage space requirements are higher than for incremental backup

    Incremental :

    Advantages:

    Backing up is the fastest

    The storage space requirements are the lowest

    Disadvantages:

    Restore is the slowest

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    system or work files.

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