In this discussion on incremental vs differential backup, we define the two terms using definitions that most people in the industry agree upon. There are complications in terminology, however, and we ...

A system failure wipes out all your data, corruption renders your data useless, an error leads to permanent deletion. Remember: Data loss always sneaks up on you. The ...

There exist more than three backup methods. However, the three main include full, differential and incremental backups. The latter two are considered smart backup options mainly because they save back ...

As humanity's use of all kinds of technology has grown, terms like backup are no longer unfamiliar to the majority of people. Of course, the concept of a backup existed long before it came to be named ...

Backup and recovery done efficiently require use of multiple backup levels carefully thought out so a full backup isn’t needed as often if incremental and differential backups are properly planned.

Listen to the Computerworld TechCast: Storage Backup Strategies. Every IT manager knows the critical importance of regularly backing up computer systems and data… and of being able to restore any or ...

The purpose of backing up business-critical data is to achieve fast backups and restores that are 100% accurate. However, IT administrators have had to compromise between speed and accuracy because ...

Our normal practices for backing up SQL servers is to use the regular SQL backup tools to perform full, differential and transaction log backups and this has always worked fine. Recently we performed ...

With SQL Server 2000, there are myriad choices for backing up your database. Whether your database is small and changes infrequently or very large and changes rapidly, there is a backup strategy to ...

Incremental or differential backup: Which should you choose? In this article, we take a look at these two key concepts in backup, looking at the pros and cons of each, as well as point to resources ...