On 02/12/2015 11:44 AM, Jeremy Schneider wrote:
Jeremy, you have to restore one full backup. That's given. Restoring 3 or 4 additional incremental backups will take significant amount of time. And that time can be eliminated using de-duplication technology, because you get the best of both worlds: you are only backing up changes and you have a full backup.In my experience, this is not true. Incrementals are a lot faster than rolling forward logs (the only other alternative way to replay between fulls). I definitely have not seen them becoming "rare" by any means.
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