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## Background
In Duplicati 1.3 backups were done and stored the following way:
* There was always a full backup followed by incremental backups.
* The latest incremental backup was based on all previous backups. To restore latest files, all backup files were required.
* Files were written into compressed archives which were encrypted afterwards.
* The archives of incremental backups only contained the changes to the previous files.
This approach had some issues:
1. The chains of full and incremental backups could get very long. As a result of that the likeliness increased that the backup could be lost due to data corruption.
1. After a loss of data, users usually restore the latest version. This required to download the entire history of all changes and restoring went through the same history again making restoring slow.
1. The recommended, regular full backups were a <insertbadwordhere>.
2. After a loss of data, users usually restore the latest version. This required to download the entire history of all changes and restoring went through the same history again making restoring slow.
3. The recommended, regular full backups were a <insert bad word here>.