Various Backup Types For Your Laptop
Backup became a necessity nowadays, especially for laptops users. What are the various types of backup?
Here a list of various backup types :
Full backup :
A full backup contains every data on a system, that are selected to be backed up, whether that file has changed or not. Because the full backup stores all files and folders, it takes longer to accomplish and requires more storage space, but they are the most comprehensive, and also provide the quickest restore times.
Pros :
1. quickest restore times
2. most comprehensive
Cons :
1.takes longer to accomplish
2.requires more storage space
Alternatives to a full backup are differential backup, incremental backup and mirror backup:
Differential backup and incremental backup :
Incremental backup contains all files that have changed since the last full, differential or incremental backup.
Differential backup back up all the files that have changed since the last full backup, it is faster than incremental backup but quickly takes more space than it.
Incremental backup
Pros :
1.fastest backup
2.The least storage space requirements
Cons :
1.the longest time to restore
Differential backup
Pros :
1.faster than a full backup
2.Restore is faster than incremental backup
Cons :
1.Higher storage space than for incremental backup
Mirror backup
Identical to a full backup excepted that the files are not compressed, and can not be password protected.
Pros :
1.The fastest backup type
2.It makes a snapshot of selected files and folders in a destination that you can browse and access later.
Cons :
1.the most storage space consuming backup type
2.No password protection
So each solution depends on your time and your needs, but they all are easy to set up.
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Added: March 5, 2008
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