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Unitrends is the premier supplier of Multi-OS Rapid Recovery appliances designed for small and medium organizations as well as FORTUNE 500® departments.
What's the difference between full backup, differential backup, incremental backup and mirror backup? Which does Unitrends support? Why?
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What's the difference between full backup, differential backup, incremental backup and mirror backup? Which does Unitrends support? Why?
A full backup is also known as a master backup, and includes all data on a computer, minus any data that has been excluded.
Differential backups (known as Incremental with Unitrends) are backups of the changed or added data since the last master backup, and each consecutive backup compounds the changes from the previous differentials, allowing the last differential to contain all of the changes since the last master. This allows for rapid data recovery without having to restore multiple "incremental" backups.
Incremental backups are backups of daily changes. Each day, an incremental backup is different and doesn't contain the changes from previous incrementals since the last master backup.
Mirror backups are backups that have been synchronized to a second set of hard drives that are removable for off-site protection.
Unitrends supports Master, Incremental (like differential), Selective, Baremetal, Secure Data Sync, and Mirror backups because they are the best combination of methods that provide redundancy, ease of rapid recovery, and high performance.
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