# How to Restore Aerospike from Incremental Backup file

**URL:** <https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/how-to-restore-aerospike-from-incremental-backup-file/7673>\
**Category:** asbackup & asrestore\
**Created:** [July 21, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/how-to-restore-aerospike-from-incremental-backup-file/7673 "2020-07-21T21:57:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/how-to-restore-aerospike-from-incremental-backup-file/7673/6 "2020-07-23T22:23:02Z")

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There is some nice discussion on incremental backups here:

> [@How does asbackup ensure the consistent of the backup on running server?](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/how-does-asbackup-ensure-the-consistent-of-the-backup-on-running-server/5294):
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> how does asbackup ensure consistent of backup ,when server is running ? when i run for an Incremental backup ,by using ‘last-update-time’ option , could i know the exactly endtime of the backup ? , so next time i can backup after this timepoint ,as the incremental backup

But in terms of deletes, I’d say re-running the clean up process that originally did the deletes.

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