Incremental Backup Software

Best Incremental & Differential Backup Software.

Bacula Enterprise Edition has always supported the different standard file backup levels that you will find in all major and professional backup solutions:

• Full backups secure the complete defined data set (called FileSet in Bacula’s configuration files). They consume more resources for their execution, both in storage, network, bandwidth and execution times, and are the most complete and fastest to restore from in the event of disaster.
• Incremental backups are all the changed files since the last backup (no matter which level). They typically have smaller execution times and consume less physical and logical resources than the entire file sets that make up a full backup. Over time the logical management of a large series of incremental file backups can slow down restore times. But that is how incremental backup software works on Windows, Linux and other OSes.
• Differential backups contain all combined file changes since the last full. Differential backups have the potential to decrease restore times a lot, because for a given point in time recovery you do not need the last full plus all incremental backups. You can use one full, one differential and perhaps some incremental backups that have been running after the last differential. In addition to being a support element for data backup and restoration operations, it also contributes to time and cost savings. The number of volumes that Bacula needs to access on disk, or the number of tapes that need to be read in for the restore operations will be significantly smaller. Differential backup software is convenient and fast.

For many organizations, data growth due to new requirements, use of new technologies, organizational changes, etc., means a schedule with regular full backups has become impractical. Bacula Enterprise allows these data centers to do the full set only once and then follow an Incremental forever scheme that means incremental file backup consolidation. Differential and incremental backups are also known as “smart backups”, because they only back up file changes that have occurred in different objects in a given period of time.

The use of incremental backup software allows you to take advantage of the execution of partial backups of data (in time and quantity). Incremental vs differential backup both provide the following benefits:

• Better organization and planning of policies for the execution of file backups in enterprises and organizations;
• Decrease in file backup execution times;
• Possibility of defining and adapting the backups, according to certain criteria and specifications, such as criticality, duration, amount of information, etc;
• Decrease in the execution times of the recovery operations of information stored in the backup volumes.

• Looking for solution for you datacenter? See our most often Windows server backup solution and Linux server backup software.
• Need backup of VMs for all hypervisors in your infrastructure? Take a look at our virtual machine backup solution.
• Interested in incremental or differential backup for Linux? Take a look at our Linux backup solutions.