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Types of Backup: A Full Backup Is Exactly What The Name Implies: It Is A

A full backup backs up an entire data set and provides the best protection but is time-consuming. Incremental backups only back up data changed since the previous backup, reducing time and storage but making restores more complex. Differential backups contain all changes since the last full backup, providing faster restores than incremental but using more storage over time. The optimal backup type depends on factors like data volume, reliability needs, speed, extensibility, and costs.

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Types of Backup: A Full Backup Is Exactly What The Name Implies: It Is A

A full backup backs up an entire data set and provides the best protection but is time-consuming. Incremental backups only back up data changed since the previous backup, reducing time and storage but making restores more complex. Differential backups contain all changes since the last full backup, providing faster restores than incremental but using more storage over time. The optimal backup type depends on factors like data volume, reliability needs, speed, extensibility, and costs.

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Types of backup

1. A full backup is exactly what the name implies: It is a


full copy of your entire data set.
 Although full backups provide the best protection.

 Most organizations only use them on a periodic basis


because:-
 they are time-consuming and

 often require a lot of disk or storage capacity.

 Because not every organization has the time or storage


space for frequent full backups, other types are often
necessary.
Cont…
2.Incremental backups were introduced as a way to decrease

the amount of time and storage space that it takes to do a full

backup.


Incremental backups only back up the data that has changed

since the previous backup.


For example, suppose that you created a full backup on Monday

and used incremental backups for the rest of the week.

Tuesday's scheduled backup would only contain the data that

has changed since Monday. Wednesday's backup would only

contain the data that has changed since Tuesday and so on.
Cont…

The primary disadvantage of incremental backups is that they can be

time-consuming to restore.

Going back to my previous example, suppose that you wanted to

restore the backup from Wednesday. To do so, you would have to first

restore Monday's full backup. After that, you would have to restore

Tuesday's backup, followed by Wednesday's.


In addition, if any of the backup media happens to be missing or

damaged, then you will not be able to perform the full restoration

and data recovery.


Cont…
3.A differential backup is similar to an incremental backup in that it

starts with a full backup and subsequent backups only contain data that

has changed.


The difference in incremental vs. differential backup is that, incremental

backup only includes the data that has changed since the previous

backup


a differential backup contains all of the data that has changed since the

last full backup.


Suppose that you wanted to create a full backup on Monday and

differential backups for the rest of the week.


Cont…
 Tuesday's backup would contain all of the data that has changed since
Monday.
 It would, therefore, be identical to an incremental backup at that
point.
 On Wednesday, however, the differential backup would back up any
data that had changed since Monday as well.
 The advantage that differential backup offers over incremental
backups are a shorter restores time.
 When speed is important, such as in a disaster recovery scenario where
downtime is unacceptable, rapid restores can be crucial.
Cont…
 Restoring a differential backup never requires more than
two backup sets.
 Incremental backups, on the other hand, could require a
great number of backup sets.
 Of course, the tradeoff in incremental vs. differential
backup is that, as time progresses, differential backup
media can grow to contain much more data than an
incremental backup.
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Selecting Backup Devices and Media


Many tools are available for backing up data.
Some are fast and expensive. Others are slow but very reliable.


The backup solution that's right for your organization depends
on many factors, including:-

Capacity The amount of data that you need to back up on a
routine basis.

Can the backup hardware support the required load given your
time and resource constraints?

Reliability The reliability of the backup hardware and media.
Cont…
 Can you afford to sacrifice reliability to meet budget or time needs?

 Extensibility The extensibility of the backup solution.

 Will this solution meet your needs as the organization grows?

 Speed The speed with which data can be backed up and recovered.

 Can you afford to sacrifice speed to reduce costs?

 Cost The cost of the backup solution.

 Does it fit into your budget?


Recovery techniques

 The recovery techniques are categorized mainly into two types.

namely, log-based recovery techniques and shadow paging.

 Log-based recovery techniques maintain transaction logs to

keep track of all update operations of the transactions.

 Shadow paging technique does not require the use of a log as

both the after image and before image of the data item to be

modified are maintained on the disk.


Cont …
 The log-based recovery techniques are classified into two types.

namely, deferred update and immediate update.

 In deferred update technique, the transaction is not allowed to

update the database on disk until the transaction enters into the

partially committed state.

 In immediate update technique, as soon as a data item is

modified in cache, the disk copy is immediately updated. That is,

the transaction is allowed to update the database in its active state.

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