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What Does "Incremental Backup" Mean? (EZ-Backup)

This article applies to: EZ-Backup

EZ-Backup uses an incremental backup policy.

This means that your first backup will be a full backup of all included drives, directories, and files.

For subsequent backups only new or changed items will be backed up. (Deleted items are noted, as well.)

Initial full backups will take much longer than subsequent incremental backups. Incremental backups usually take only a few minutes.

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