
It is easy and efficient when creating
backup chains.
Demerits
Resulted backup images may contain a
lot of redundant data.
It depends on a file system structure, so
you won’t be able to process unknown
file systems.
It is ineffective when trying to maintain a
backup chain, especially when little
amount of data is being changed.
It cannot be used to back up a system
partition.
It is much slower when processing large
amount of data.
Backup Types
At the present moment the market is offering various types of backup imaging to meet the needs of
any user. Besides supporting them all, our program offers a unique backup type, called File
Increment to a Sector Backup.
Full and Differential Sector Backups
A full sector-based backup image includes all contents of a partition or a hard disk at the moment of
its creation. If you roll back your system to the initial state on a regular basis, that’s exactly what
you’re looking for. But if you want to have multiple backup archives of the same partition reflecting
certain time stamps, unchanged data will inevitable be duplicated in all archives and take
additional space on backup media. To tackle this issue there has been developed a supplementary
technique called Differential Sector Backup.
A differential archive only contains data changed since the time of creating a full archive, which
forms a base (or a parental image) in this case, thus considerably saving your system resources. It is
realized by the exact bit-wise comparison of the previous partition's data (saved in the parental
image) with the current data (that is actually the partition itself). To restore this kind of backup you
will require a full image and one of its differentials, what is very convenient.
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