Are incremental backups supported by Argentum Backup?
Yes and no. Argentum Backup combines the best of both full and incremental backup strategies into one strategy. The backup copy, created by Argentum Backup, is the complete duplicate of the source files and folders, i. e. it is always full in this regard. However, during backup operation, Argentum Backup processes only changed files and folders, that is the backup operation is actually incremental and so very fast. As a result, Argentum Backup always creates a full backup, but, when updating backups, always employs an incremental strategy. If you need to have a few backup copies in the backup store, just as you were using an incremental strategy, you may want to enable the stacking feature in Argentum Backup. Although truly incremental backups are not supported, Argentum Backup’s built-in semi-incremental strategy along with the stacking enabled takes the best features of the two regular methods: full and incremental. First, it is as fast as the incremental strategy. Second, it makes i