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Circular Logging

Circular Logging must be disabled to take advantage of incremental and differential backups. If Circular Logging is not disabled and you submit an incremental or differential backup, the agent automatically converts the backup to full.

Although Circular Logging decreases the amount of disk space you use, it does not let you recover all changes since your last backup because it only maintains a small number of log files. Consequently, you cannot take advantage of the benefits of using a transaction-based system and you cannot completely recover if something goes wrong with the system. If you want to conserve disk space, perform regular backups rather than using Circular Logging because backups automatically remove transaction log files.

You cannot restore individual databases if circular logging is enabled during the backup operation or during the recovery operation.