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Backup.Incremental Property

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

Namespace:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
Assembly:  Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended (in Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Property Incremental As Boolean
    Get
    Set
'Usage
Dim instance As Backup
Dim value As Boolean

value = instance.Incremental

instance.Incremental = value

public bool Incremental { get; set; }

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

member Incremental : bool with get, set

function get Incremental () : boolean
function set Incremental (value : boolean)

Property Value

Type: System.Boolean
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.

Examples

VB

'Connect to the local, default instance of SQL Server.
Dim srv As Server
srv = New Server
'Reference the AdventureWorks2008R2 database.
Dim db As Database
db = srv.Databases("AdventureWorks2008R2")
Dim bk As New Backup
bk.Action = BackupActionType.Database
bk.Database = "AdventureWorks2008R2"
bk.Incremental = true

PowerShell

$srv = new-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server("(local)")
$db = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Database
$db = $srv.Databases.Item("AdventureWorks2008R2")
$bk = new-object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Backup
$bk.Action = [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.BackupActionType]::Database
$bk.Database = "AdventureWorks2008R2"
$bk.Incremental = $TRUE