Full Backups, Incremental and Differential Backups

Full backups take significant time to complete compared with incremental or differential backups. To save time and disk space, schedule full backups to run less frequently than incremental or differential backups. Typically full backups are scheduled once per week or once per month, while incremental or differential backups run daily. All files required for a full backup, including all incremental or differential backups, are saved together in a backup set. You may save any number of full backup sets you wish.

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