CREATING A FULL BACKUP IMAGE FROM INCREMENTAL BACKUPS

A full backup copy of a storage volume can be created from only incremental backups of the storage volume. A bitmap can be created that includes a set of depopulated indicator locations configured to contain a set of indicators, where each indicator location represents a corresponding portion of the storage volume. Portions of the storage volume from which data was copied to a set of incremental backups can be identified. Indicators providing correspondence between the identified portions of the storage volume and the incremental backups of the set of incremental backups can be created in the bitmap, until the set of indicator locations in the bitmap is fully populated. In accordance with the set of indicators, data from the set of incremental backups corresponding to the identified portions of the storage volume can be copied to the backup copy.