Contrast with an archival backup, in which all files are backed up regardless of whether they have been modified since the last backup.
Incremental Backup
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Any backup in which only the data objects that have been modified since the time of some previous backup are copied. A collective term for cumulative incremental backups and differential incremental backups.
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