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Does built in Windows 7 backup perform differential (incremental) backups?
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Mar 15, 202642900 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have win 7 scheduled to backup every Sunday, it's only looking at one of my drives at the moment and is backing up to an external HDD. It's a 1TB drive so should take quite a while to fill but the amount of time the backup takes makes me think its taking a fresh copy every time. It's now 21:34 an…
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Fix for: Does built in Windows 7 backup perform differential (incremental) backups?
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Windows 7 Backup is a block based file backup. This means each block in a file is examined and if a duplicate already exists on the last backup, and this is the important bit, even if from a different file, that block is not saved. Quite good :) The…
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