iCloud Backup: incremental or full?

[Eradik]

Really looking forward to iCloud backups, but my question is, is it an incremental or full backup?

Cant find anything that says for sure either way. Just would like to know if every day the backup is full (i.e. 500mb) or just what changes (i.e. 20 mb of new app data and 15 new pictures for a total of, say, 50 mb).

 

[thunderbunny]

Not 100% sure but think incremental. First backup always takes aaaages, others are much quicker.

 

[GollumBoy]

Not 100% sure but think incremental. First backup always takes aaaages, others are much quicker.

I hope so 2.6GB on 40KB/s upload takes 28hours 😛 Still not done my first backup! Will start it tonight, as not at work for 3 days now 😀

 

[thunderbunny]

I hope so 2.6GB on 40KB/s upload takes 28hours 😛 Still not done my first backup! Will start it tonight, as not at work for 3 days now 😀

You need to get faster wi-fi

 

[lentini]

Not 100% sure but think incremental. First backup always takes aaaages, others are much quicker.

Definitely incremental

 

[GollumBoy]

You need to get faster wi-fi

Today been saying 2 hours then errored out when I did something on the phone 😡

It's not Wi-Fi, it's my line connection good old ADSL (about 4Mbps) 🙂 No cable where I live 😀

 

[JRoDDz]

Differential 😛

 

[MonkeySee....]

Blimey. I'm going to need to do a first time sync at my old mans. I only get 38kb/s on my connection.

 

[thunderbunny]

Blimey. I'm going to need to do a first time sync at my old mans. I only get 38kb/s on my connection.

Or go and do it at apple store

 

[HelveticaNeue]

Must be incremental. My first iPhone backup to iCloud took 30min, then each subsequent backup takes a couple minutes. Same with iPad. First time was an hour, second time 3 minutes.