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After a while you chose to upgrade to Windows Vista. To be on the safe side, you made an
incremental backup before the upgrade and named it "DiskCBeforeUpgrading". Upon upgrading you
made sure that the new system and all your applications operate normally and made one more
incremental backup naming it "DiskCWindowsVista".
After working under Windows Vista for some time you decided that you would like to try Linux as
well. Before creating a partition for Linux you perform an incremental backup of the system disk and
name it "DiskCBeforePartitioning", and so on. As a result, if the need to recover arises, you will be
able to find at a glance a backup archive corresponding to the system disk state you want to recover.
As was already mentioned, you can save full and incremental backups to different locations. For
example, you can save the initial full backup to an external USB hard drive, and then burn the
subsequent incremental backups to CDs or DVDs. It is also possible to save such backups to a