Title: Differenial Backups
Last modified: April 13, 2017

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# Differenial Backups

 *  Resolved [Easton Bavents](https://wordpress.org/support/users/microbe/)
 * (@microbe)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/differenial-backups/)
 * Hi
 * I have v4.03.
 * How do I set up differential backups?

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 *  [XCloner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xcloner/)
 * (@xcloner)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/differenial-backups/#post-9027365)
 * In the Generate Backup screen there is a field called “Backup Only Files Modified/
   Created After”, you can set there a date to backup only files modified after 
   that period and so creating a differential backup.
 * Hope it helps
 *  Thread Starter [Easton Bavents](https://wordpress.org/support/users/microbe/)
 * (@microbe)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/differenial-backups/#post-9027583)
 * Hi Liuta
 * Thanks for the quick reply.
 * I want to schedule a daily backup using the differential method to capture changes.
   Do I need to take an intial backup first? Then create a scheduled backup to get
   the changed files and will the schedule step forward automatically each day?
 *  [XCloner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xcloner/)
 * (@xcloner)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/differenial-backups/#post-9027746)
 * What i recommend is this:
 * 1. create a schedule with a full backup weekly or twice a month, and yes, I would
   recommend creating first a full backup, but this can be done manually from the
   Generate Backup panel
 * 2. create a daily differential backup including a database backup. The schedule
   differential time will not change automatically, i am testing a few solutions
   to see how it’s best to get this done, but so far, even if you let the differential
   time unchanged, you will still get a considerable lower backup archive size. 
   You can manually change the differential start time from month to month if you
   like.
 * Please check the FAQ posted on the plugin page [https://wordpress.org/plugins/xcloner-backup-and-restore/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/xcloner-backup-and-restore/),
   i did post there a few other notes
 *  Thread Starter [Easton Bavents](https://wordpress.org/support/users/microbe/)
 * (@microbe)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/differenial-backups/#post-9027896)
 * That sounds good, will set it up as you suggest.
 * “i am testing a few solutions to see how it’s best to get this done,” will be
   fantastic when you have that sorted. Even as is this is much better solution 
   for me than running massive daily full backups. Thanks for your work on this,
   great plugin.
 *  [Amibe Websites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amibe/)
 * (@amibe)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/differenial-backups/#post-9259056)
 * “The schedule differential time will not change automatically, i am testing a
   few solutions to see how it’s best to get this done…”
 * I am testing XCloner as a solution and would be interested in this also.
 * I can imagine selecting another scheduled backup the source of the schedule differential
   time (or ‘this scheduled backup’, resulting in incremental backups). That way
   the differential can be from when the last scheduled backup ran.
 * For example, one full backup scheduled per week and one differential backup from
   when the last full backup ran (scheduled daily).
 * I will log as (enhancement) issue on Git Hub…

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/differenial-backups/#post-9259056)
 * Status: resolved