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Any snapshot created , be it manual or automated is incremental , as it will work in the following way: When the snapshot process starts, it will check if the current underlying storage volume has a previous snapshot, to calculate the difference, the blocks that has been modified, and it will backup only the ones that changed since the previous snapshot So it does not matter whether it is manual or automated The only exception is any event where the underlying storage may have changed, like A Multi AZ Failover, a Multi AZ to Single AZ change, or some storage modifications In that case the next snapshot will be a full one
However, Unlike automated backups, manual snapshots aren't subject to the backup retention period.i.e. Snapshots don't expire. So although they are incremental during creationg, they would be sufficient by itself to restore the database until the point of snapshot.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_CreateSnapshot.html
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