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How can you do differential on SQL databases? I thought a MSSQL: backup 
was *always* forced to FULL, even if you set it to incremental. I tried 
setting one of my jobs that does a SQL DB backup to incremental, and it 
said it was forcing it to FULL. This is using the NW SQL Module 5.x on NW 
7.4.1.

Or did you mean filesystem backup, as opposed to the actual SQL DBs?

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98% of the time when I see an incremental (log) backup backing up the whole 
database it's because a DBA went in and changed the database from "full" 
recovery mode to "simple" - and didn't tell us.

Networker will most definitely backup full, differential, and incremental (log) 
backups of SQL though.

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