
What’s the difference? Let’s take a look. A file based backup will back up the file, for example, the Word or Excel file. So, when it is time to restore you can restore that file. An image based backup, backs up the entire hard drive underneath the file level at which point have two options. First, you can access the image and still restore a single Word or Excel file. Second, you can restore the entire computer in the exact state it was in at the time of the backup. Let’s expand on this a bit.