Comments on: What’s the Diff: Full, Incremental, Differential, and Synthetic Full Backups https://www.backblaze.com/blog/whats-the-diff-full-incremental-differential-and-synthetic-full-backups/ Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:54:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Kari Rivas https://www.backblaze.com/blog/whats-the-diff-full-incremental-differential-and-synthetic-full-backups/#comment-328844 Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:15:30 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=104981#comment-328844 In reply to Snsokstan.

The good news is you don’t have to worry about it. Our Computer Backup client for personal use does all the work for you, and we only upload data that’s changed or added to reduce the amount of bandwidth we use.

]]> By: Snsokstan https://www.backblaze.com/blog/whats-the-diff-full-incremental-differential-and-synthetic-full-backups/#comment-328843 Thu, 10 Mar 2022 03:34:40 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=104981#comment-328843 I have a regular Backblaze account that I don’t think about. It just runs in the background. I also use MacOS Time Machine. It runs in the background. How do I figure out what kind of backup type is being used — or do I even have to think about that.

]]> By: Jesús Jiménez https://www.backblaze.com/blog/whats-the-diff-full-incremental-differential-and-synthetic-full-backups/#comment-328840 Wed, 09 Mar 2022 09:14:18 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=104981#comment-328840 What about deduplication tools like borg, restic or duplicacy? With this approach, there’s a single repository of all possible chunks of data, and individual backups are just a list of chunks from that repository. So, all backups are full, while being fast and efficient as incremental.

]]> By: Molly https://www.backblaze.com/blog/whats-the-diff-full-incremental-differential-and-synthetic-full-backups/#comment-328834 Tue, 08 Mar 2022 09:32:31 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=104981#comment-328834 In reply to bill.

Yes, those should be different. Thanks for the heads up!

]]> By: bill https://www.backblaze.com/blog/whats-the-diff-full-incremental-differential-and-synthetic-full-backups/#comment-328833 Tue, 08 Mar 2022 09:26:16 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=104981#comment-328833 Thanks for the clear explanation. Should there be different diagrams under synthetic full and differential section though?

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