Incremental vs Differential Backup for Restoring to previous date/system state?

zetsui · Mar 23, 2015

I wantred to know if I want to COMPLETELY restore the system to a previous date, rather than just files that haven't changed, is there a difference between these two backup methods?

Also what is the advantage between tradition backup and virtual disk?

Lastly if I want to restore an old Paragon image of an HDD into a new SSD, what is the order to do that? What does alignment have to do with anything here? I am thnking restore to the HDD and then use hte Paragon migration tool to move it to the SSD?

USAFRet · Mar 23, 2015

You're talking about multiple, completely different, concepts here.

Incremental or differential backup - used to save new versions of multiple files that changed from yesterday to today.

System Restore - used to completely wipe out what is on the system disk, and return it to the state of whatever date you made that image.

If you want to bring back an old image made with Paragon, you use that Paragon client, find the particular 'image', point it to the disk you want to overwrite, and say Go.
Anything added to that drive between when you made that image and today is wiped out completely.

But what are you actually trying to do?

zetsui · Mar 25, 2015

USAFRet :

Was trying to restore an old HDD image to my new SSD. Ended up wasting a lot of time and re-installing everything/my shortcuts/settings.

What I should have done was restore the old image to the HDD (5 hour process) THEN use paragon HDD to SSD to restore

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