Azure backups

Question

If We initiate Azure backups for a suse vm hosting Sap hana, understanding is

1. The first vm backup will be a full backup
2. Every subsequent vm backup will be a delta of the changes made on the disks. Hence from 2nd backup onwards the backup size will be smaller from the 1st backup

Is my understanding correct

Answer 1

Hi @Vishal Garg ,

basically you are right. A differential backup is smaller than the full backup.
But ... the size of a differential backup depends on the amount of data changed since the last full backup.

Please take a look on the Illustration here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_backup

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