The old "Full" terminology was misleading since the software never backed up all the files in full after the initial backup. — David Gugick
All files are backed up with incrementals — David Gugick
Michael Pietrzak
I strongly disagree with you. There is not a one restore that I have done in past 3 year's and encounter a problem. However there are up's and down's and this one I believe is one of the down's on msp360. Something inside me tell me that needs a change? — Stratos Misinezis
Amount of change is not a consideration for incremental. — David Gugick
If all options in advanced recurring are enabled what factors would determine if block level or incremental would run?If a file changes in any way, the file is backed up again the next backup schedule. — David Gugick
What you should be aware of when using block-level backups is that there is a chain of backups of changes for some files and this can affect how many file versions need to be kept based on retention settings. As an example, let's say you are backing up a single large file and perform daily block-level backups and monthly incremental backups. You want to keep all file versions for 14-days. In this case because you are only running new incrementals monthly, you would end up with about 45 days of backups before the older files can be removed (the initial file backup plus 30 block-level backups, followed by a new file backup and 13 block-level backups). In order to keep 14 days, we can't delete any backups until that 13th block-level is complete on the new backup set. In this case you might decide to run your incremental backups every 14 days instead (or more frequently) to reduce storage. — David Gugick
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