Backup Methods

With Vinchin Backup & Recovery, you can schedule Full Backup, Incremental Backup, Differential Backup and Forever Incremental Backup to protect your VMs.

Full Backup

The full backup is the most complete type of backup, it will create a full copy of the data assets to the backup repository. It is considered the simplest way for backup and recovery, but at the same time, it is the most storage space occupation and time-consuming backup method. As a result, it is either scheduled with longer backup intervals or shorter retention time.

Incremental Backup

Incremental backup is a backup method which backs up the new and changed data since the previous backup (full or incremental). Usually, it requires a full backup to be taken in longer time intervals, and then run the incremental backups in shorter time intervals.

Differential Backup

Differential backup is the backup method which backs up the new and changed data since the previous full backup.

Forever Incremental Backup

Forever Incremental backup will start with an initial full backup and then runs incremental backups without any further full backups. In other words, it always backs up the new and changed data blocks comparing to the previous backup.