Definition
An incremental cloud backup saves only data and files that have been altered since the previous backup. Its primary objective is to capture any modifications made since the last backup.
Polarbackup implements an incremental-forever backup approach, initiating with a full bac...
Definition
As a backup service, Polarbackup supports the following features:
Incremental backup with versioning: Polarbackup employs incremental backup with versioning, whereby any modifications made to the original files locally will automatically trigger an upload to the Cloud, res...
Polarbackup allows you to backup any file with any extension. However, not all the backed-up files are viewable/streamable when looking at them online via a web browser.
Polarbackup supports viewing/streaming the following file extensions/types, as long as they are backed up to Instant Storage or...
By default, Polarbackup will use any available Internet connection at the upload time. You can customize it to use only certain connection by doing the following:
Method 1: From the Polarbackup software
Open the Polarbackup desktop software.
Click on Settings.
Select the Connec...
In case of metered connection, kindly enable backup over metered connections option by following the steps below:
Open your Polarbackup desktop software.
Click on Settings → Click on Connection from the left menu → Check the Enable backup over metered connections option → Click on ...
Polarbackup provides you with the ability to pause the backup while displaying presentations, playing games, or watching movies. All you need to do is to apply one of the following methods.
Method 1: From the Polarbackup software
Open the Polarbackup desktop software.
From the Pol...
The Polarbacup backs up to Amazon S3 servers and does not limit or cap uploading speed unless the user chooses to throttle the bandwidth taken by Polarbacup.
You can enable the bandwidth throttling and schedule it (if needed) as the following:
Method 1: Using the Polarbackup ...
This method of uploading files will speed up your backup by uploading more than one batch at a time. On the other hand, this means that more bandwidth will be used since we are uploading more files at a time.
You can enable/disable the Multithreaded upload option as the following:
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Polarbackup performs incremental backups. This means that whenever one of your selected files get modified locally on your drive(s), Polarbackup desktop software will back it up again for you, adding a new version of this file to your backup in the Cloud so you can restore any old version when neede...
Files will not get automatically deleted from your Cloud backup even if you have deleted the original copy of them from your machine. This is the main purpose of having a backup!
In the case you have deleted file(s) locally from your machine, you will find that those file(s) are still a...