I need to choose software for network backup (this is not a software recommendation question).
I wonder if there are accepted standards for incremental or differential backups, so different software can backup and restore files without conflicts (like conflicts caused by different encoding standards or file formats).
Otherwise, there is a "good practice" to let other people know how to restore the information inside the backup?
I would like to avoid/ease a situation like "somebody doesn't know what software made the backup, and needs to restore a file", or "the network administrator decided to unify/change the backup software, and is necessary to reformat all the backup files”.