Backup.Incremental Property

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Gets or sets a Boolean property value that determines whether to perform a differential backup.

Namespace: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
Assembly: Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo (in microsoft.sqlserver.smo.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Property Incremental As Boolean

public bool Incremental { get; set; }

public:
property bool Incremental {
    bool get ();
    void set (bool value);
}

/** @property */
public boolean get_Incremental ()

/** @property */
public void set_Incremental (boolean value)

public function get Incremental () : boolean

public function set Incremental (value : boolean)

Property Value

A Boolean value that specifies whether a differential backup will be performed. If True, only changes since the most recent full or differential backup will be included in the backup operation. If False (default), a full backup will be performed.

Remarks

This namespace, class, or member is supported only in version 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Example

How to: Back Up Databases and Transaction Logs in Visual Basic .NET

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Microsoft Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Platforms

Development Platforms

For a list of the supported platforms, see Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2005.

Target Platforms

For a list of the supported platforms, see Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2005.

See Also

Reference

Backup Class
Backup Members
Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo Namespace

Other Resources

Using Differential Backups
Backing Up and Restoring Databases in SQL Server
BACKUP (Transact-SQL)