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Update modules/ROOT/pages/backup-restore/online-backup.adoc
Co-authored-by: Nick Giles <[email protected]>
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=== Perform a differential backup using the `--prefer-diff-as-parent` option
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When creating a differential backup, the parent is always the most recent (non-empty) backup in the directory.
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In some cases the directory may have two equally recent backups -- a full backup and a differential one.
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By default, the full backup is chosen as the parent.
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But you can use the differential backup as the parent by setting the option `--prefer-diff-as-parent` to `True`.
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When creating a differential backup, the parent is usually the most recent (non-empty) backup in the directory.
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In some cases you may prefer to use the latest differential backup as the parent, even if there is a more recent full backup.
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You can use the latest differential backup as the parent by setting the option `--prefer-diff-as-parent` to `True`.
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This can be used to ensure you have differential backups for all transactions, which would allow you to restore to any point in time.
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Otherwise, the transactions between a full backup and the previous differential backup will not be backed up as individual transactions.
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