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^ Exactly. The Differential backup file itself contains only the data that changed since the last Full, but when you mount a backup as a virtual drive, you still see the entire drive as it was at the time the Diff backup was captured, because Reflect in the background is synthesizing the Full and Differential backups together in order to create that state, just as it would if you decided to restore that backup. That’s why you need the parent Full available in order to mount or restore a Diff.
There’s no way to mount a Diff backup in a way that reveals only the data that was captured in that backup. That wouldn't even really be feasible for image backups since they operate on a block level, so in many cases if you did that with a Diff, you’d end up with a few data blocks of a lot of files, not complete usable files — and maybe not even a complete usable file system. File and Folder backups always contain whole files, but even they always show the whole source data set when mounted, not just the files that that specific backup contains.
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