> Because when you run your differential incrementals, the archive bit
> will be set.  If you try to do a cumulative after a differentail (or
> the other way around), nothing has its archive bit in a state that
> says it needs to be backed up.
> 
> Unix uses the data/time of the last successfull backup of the policy.
> Since both would look back to the last schedule of type FULL, they
> should get the right info.

I suppose you could do the same on windows if you used timestamp instead
of archive bit (which I can't remember how to change).


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