An incremental backup includes a backup of partial updates that have occurred since the last baseline backup or snapshot backup. Incremental backups allow you to revert to a more granular state of the MDEX Engine index.

In this scenario, you run baseline or delta updates with periodic partial updates in between, and back up partial update files, so that you can recover the index to its specific state at a particular date and time. In addition, you also create baseline or snapshot backups.