Disk-Assisted Backup Whitepaper

Figure 8. Defining a backup specification with enhanced incremental backup enabled

Select this option to enable enhanced incremental backup. Unlike conventional incremental backup,

enhanced incremental backup reliably detects and backs up files with changes in name, location, and

attributes. It is also a prerequisite for subsequent object consolidation (synthetic backup).

Note

After you select this option, incremental backup will run in the enhanced

mode only after a full backup is performed.

To start running enhanced backups with the next backup, although an incremental backup is

scheduled next, set the global variable EnhIncrPromoteToFullIfNoEnhFull to 1, which will promote the

next backup to a full backup.