Windows 8 Differential & Incremental Backup Utility: Stop Spending Time

Windows 8 Differential Backup is a great alternative to full backup of an operating system as it allows reducing time and storage space. Try Handy Backup Windows 8 backup software, where all types of backup - full, differential, incremental and mixed - are available!

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Backup of an operating system is much more serious task than backup photos from a vacation. Even if you made 5000 photos (10000, if you were vacationing with a beautiful girl), all of them quite easily fit on your USB flash drive. But in the case of Windows 8 disk image backup, you can forget about the flash drive - an external hard drive capacity may be not enough!

Under these conditions, a full Windows 8 backup in the "classic" form of copying or archiving starts to be a very large and time-consuming. However it’s not a reason to worry about. Try differential backup software - Handy Backup!

Windows 8 Differential Backup

Windows 8 differential backup is more elegant backup utility, because in fact every time you do a differential backup you save not all the data, but only changes made since the last full backup.

Remember yourself, do you reinstall your programs every day, or make significant changes to the registry? In this picture it is shown schematically how that works:

Thus, Windows 8 differential backup is a faster method of the backup. However, do not forget about you need first make a full backup. The other advantage is easy restoring: you only need the last differential backup (and a full backup) to restore the data.

Windows 8 Incremental Backup

An incremental backup differs from the other types of backup. The difference is that Windows 8 incremental backup saves only the data from last successful incremental backup.

The main advantage of such a backup it’s smaller than differential or full backups. If you set up an automatic backup schedule, it will reduce the load of your computer and free up its resources for other tasks.

The disadvantage of Windows 8 incremental backup lies in the field of recovery. When you restore Windows 8 operating system, you will require a full backup and the entire chain of incremental backups. The "incremental restore" will usually take more time comparing to other types.

Windows 8 Backup in Handy Backup

Handy Backup has all the necessary functionality for fast Windows 8 backup:

• Full, differential, incremental and mixed backup. Choose any way to backup that you think is the best. Handy Backup uses a special multi-threading technology to make an effective backup without stopping the Windows 8 operating system.





• Automatic backup. Instead of making a manual backup every time, just set up a schedule.
• Backup to external media. Increase the reliability and the safety of your operating system by configuring backing up to external media (such as FTP, SFTP, NAS, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Google Drive and others). But remember about fast Internet when planning the backup to external drives!

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Version 8.5.3 , built on March 5, 2024. 116 MB
30-day full-featured trial period

Make sure you Windows 8 operation system is safe, and so are your nervous system!
Download and try Handy Backup Windows 8 backup utility right now!

See also:

• Backup Software Windows 7
• Windows 10 Backup Software