On a system that typically sees no more than the modification/creation of a bunch of Word docs or Excel spreadsheets on a daily basis, I would probably choose differential backups. I use either, basing my choice on the system usage. Since recovery from incremental backups may rely on the integrity of several backup files, you might conclude that those present the greater risk, but since differential backups will generally be larger (because they're repeatedly backing up changes since the last full backup), there's a greater chance that one or more of them could end up spanning a bad sector. Incremental backups, however, are a backup chain, with each one referencing the last, right back to the last full backup. It depends on the computer usage, but it's mainly a matter of mitigation, to give you the best chance of recovery should any backup files become corrupt.ĭifferential backups always reference the last full backup, so to recover data from those, you need only the differential backup and the last full backup to be present and intact. Both incremental and differential can be used for versioning.
I would strongly suggest that you configure it to verify after each backup though and use the email notification feature.Īlso, if you join their reseller program, you'll get a reasonable discount.Įither. Macrium has never failed to restore a backup for me, no matter what the backup type (full, incremental or differential).
Set a schedule to run the saved definition, as an incremental or differential backup, each day (or more).Īs well as full restoration, you can mount the backup images and restore individual files, so a good retention of frequent differential/incremental backups will effectively provide versioning too.
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