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| Home / Risk Glossary / Incremental Backup | 4 February, 2012 | |
Incremental Backup (Definition)An incremental backup stores only those files that have been changed since the last incremental or full backup. Incremental backups are the quickest to perform, since they store the smallest number of files. However, they create complexity during restoration. For full restoration, the last full backup needs to be restored, followed by each incremental backup in sequence since the last full backup. In addition, a media failure in restoring one incremental backup will cause problems restoring subsequent incremental backups. See Also: Differential Backup, Full Backup. Risky Thinking Newsletter Are you responsible for Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, or Risk Management in your organization? Then you may wish to receive a free subscription to the the monthly Risky Thinking Newsletter. It contains news, opinions and articles of interest to people working in these areas. View a sample issue, or click here to subscribe. Recent articles have included: We may have been lucky once again. The H1N1 / Swine flu epidemic which was first reported in Mexico in 2009 hasn't proved as deadly as early reports suggested it might be. It's influenza. It's a pandemic. It will kill a lot of people over the next three years. But it doesn't look like it will be anywhere near as deadly as the flu pandemic of 1918. It looks like it is another near miss, which means that we may have the chance to learn some lessons from the current outbreak...
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