4.3 Incremental backups

To save only the files that are newer than a given date and time, KBACKUP provides incremental backups. In the Configuration/File selection -menu you can set the date to compare the files to. Whenever you create a backup using the same configuration, this date gets set to the current time. If you make a backup using the configuration ``Default'', this does not affect the date for the configuration ``Example'' and so on.

Caution: Using incremental backups can lead to inconsistencies! After restoring them, all files get written back to the filesystem, but files that have been deleted intensionally will get rewritten as well. Therefore you will generally have more files than before which might cause unexpected behaviour from some applications, especially if you restore lock-files. If you can, better do full backups.