What is exactly the difference between differential and incremental?

> From: "Robert Comer" 
> And differentials are a lot less complex than a SAN.
> For years and years daily backups had to be differential because of
> time/speed constraints on the AS/400, but now I do full data backups daily
> too.
> fwiw, restoring from a differential backup isn't all that complex as long as
> you go with differential and not incremental backups. (I've had to do it
> twice in my career -- so far.)
> - Bob Comer
> "Ellen K." 
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> news:uprg20h9im0ha4epbddkk846ndo50cpv0s{at}4ax.com...
>> Ha, similarly I insist on full backups, I don't wanna get involved with
>> differentials.
>> 
>> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:37:17 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote in
>> message :
>> 
>> >"Robert Comer"  wrote
in message
>> >news:4025b418{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >> I just don't trust distributed storage schemes in general, added
>> >complexity
>> >> is a failure point that doesn't need to be there...
>> >
>> >added complexity can also increase recovery times when you have to
> rebuild
>> >the volume and restore data. (or not)
>> >
>> >Geo.
>> >
>> 

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