Crawl all the content irrespective of previous crawls.
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Crawls the content that was modified from last crawl
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Crawls the content that was modified from last crawl but more periodically than incremental crawl
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Parallel Full Crawl Not possible
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Parallel Incremental Crawl Not possible
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Multiple continuous crawls can perform simultaneously
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Full Crawl works with content source - SharePoint Sites, Web sites, File Shares, Exchange Public Folders, Line of Business data, Custom Repository.
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Incremental Crawl works with content source - SharePoint Sites, Web sites, File Shares, Exchange Public Folders, Line of Business data, Custom Repository.
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Continuous crawl works only with content source type: SharePoint Sites
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Full Crawl can be stopped or Paused in between the crawl process is running
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Incremental Crawl can be stopped or Paused in between the crawl process is running
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Once the continuous crawl is enabled, you cannot stop or pause it, you can only disable the crawl.
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