types of file backup
File Based Data Backup. File based backup is the type of backup that most people are familiar with. Because this form of backup has been around for so long, the technologies employed are quite numerous, and backup solutions have been developed for about every situation that can be imagined.
VSS_FILE_SPEC_BACKUP_TYPE enumeration. The VSS_FILE_SPEC_BACKUP_TYPE enumeration is used by writers to indicate their support of certain backup operationsâsuch as incremental or differential backupâon the basis of file sets (a specified file or files).
This type of backup is often described as a âbare metal backupâ because it backs up physical disks at the volume level. In other words, a true disk image is an exact copy of an entire physical disk or disk partition.