I have continuous crawl running on 2013 and everything I've read says that incremental crawl doesn't run if continuous crawl is selected but my crawl logs say different. Am I misunderstanding?
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Answered my own question by reading this a little closer: A continuous crawl does not process or retry items that return errors more than three times. A "clean-up" incremental crawl automatically runs every four hours for content sources that have continuous crawl enabled to re-crawl any items that repeatedly return errors. This incremental crawl will try to crawl the item again and then will postpone retries if the error persists.
Source: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219802.aspx