{"id":201,"date":"2013-07-12T05:53:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T05:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2021-05-14T05:58:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T05:58:21","slug":"how-to-perform-full-backup-and-incremental-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/how-to-perform-full-backup-and-incremental-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"How to perform full backup and incremental backup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There must be many people who are still confused about the differences of backup types, thus here I\u2019ll talk about this and help anyone who is looking to backing up computer find the best way to do this and avoid losing precious data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Full backup <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a backup of everything. A full backup of system means backing up the entire contents of all the drives connected to the system. Full backup usually takes long time and big disk space, especially when there are too many files to be saved.<\/p>\n<p>Pros:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Restore is the fastest;<\/li>\n<li>The entire backed-up data is stored in a single file, which has better storage management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Backing up speed is the slowest (compared with the other two backup types)<\/li>\n<li>It takes bigger disk space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Incremental backup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An incremental backup contains all changed that have been made since the last backup operation of any type. It backs up a smaller amount of data than full backup, thus it is faster and requires less space to store the backup file.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, there\u2019s no limit on the number of incremental backup, thus there\u2019ll be many time points created by all backup. Therefore, the system can be restored to any state you\u2019ve backed up.<\/p>\n<p>Pros<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fast speed;<\/li>\n<li>Save storage space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It takes longer time to restore data compared to a differential backup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to perform full backup and incremental backup for Windows backup?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is indeed a wise move to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isoo.com\/\">backup Windows<\/a> timely and gradually, so that you can restore system whenever system goes abnormal instead of reinstalling system any more. Thus computer users who are not willing to reinstall system and those who have no ideas of system reinstallation steps should read the following article carefully and learn how to backup system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step by step guide<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To backup system, you can use Eassos System Restore to carry out full backup or incremental backup.<\/p>\n<p>Get the program started, and you&#8217;ll see its main interface:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-166 size-full\" title=\"Eassos System Restore\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Eassos-System-Restore.jpg\" alt=\"Eassos System Restore- backup Windows 01\" width=\"692\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Eassos-System-Restore.jpg 692w, https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Eassos-System-Restore-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Eassos-System-Restore-423x300.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click the button \u201cBackup\u201d to get the following interface:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-171 size-full\" title=\"Eassos System Restore\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/sysback03.jpg\" alt=\"Eassos System Restore- backup Windows 02\" width=\"692\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/sysback03.jpg 692w, https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/sysback03-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/sysback03-422x300.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click the button \u201cOptions\u201d and you\u2019ll see the picture below\uff1a<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-204 size-full\" title=\"Eassos System Restore- backup Windows 03\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/advanced-settings02.jpg\" alt=\"Eassos System Restore- backup Windows 03\" width=\"691\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/advanced-settings02.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/advanced-settings02-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/advanced-settings02-423x300.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Usually, the first backup is full backup and in later backup it\u2019ll be incremental backup by default. These setting are made by the program in accordance with the actual situation of the computer being backed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There must be many people who are still confused about the differences of backup types, thus here I\u2019ll talk about this and help anyone who is looking to backing up computer find the best way to do this and avoid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/how-to-perform-full-backup-and-incremental-backup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[267,63,64,55,57],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-system-backup-restore","tag-backup-windows","tag-full-backup","tag-incremental-backup","tag-system-backup","tag-system-restore","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4853,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/4853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}