Are incremental backups sector based?

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cmcfarling
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Are incremental backups sector based?

Post by cmcfarling » Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:07 pm

When R-Drive Image creates an incremental backup, does it do so by backing up only sectors that have changed? For example, if only 100KB of a 4GB file have changed does it add 100K or 4GB to the incremental backup?

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Re: Are incremental backups sector based?

Post by Alt » Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:37 pm

Surely 100k.

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