What Does Incremental Backup Mean?
In data backup and recovery, an incremental backup is one that backs up only files and data that have changed since a previous backup was performed. Part of the definition of an incremental backup in IT is that the previous backup can be either a full backup or an additional incremental backup; for the purposes of the incremental backup, the type of previous backup is of lesser importance because the entire goal of the incremental backup is to document changes since the previous benchmark was established.
