Increased retention Policy File_Sever.
Hi,
Need to increase the retention time of a policy file server, thus have two schedules.
Differentiates Incremental - retention 2 weeks
Full - retention 2 weeks
My client requires monthly backup of the corresponding 12 months one year.
Remarks:
Master Windows Server 2008;
Windows Media Server;
Policy Windows File Server with 210GB volume;
How to start implementation?
I always find that a calendar schedule works well for weekly /monthly ones
So diff is frequency based and runs say 6pm to 2am Sunday to Thursday with a frequency of 10 hours (the frequency must be just larger than the duration) with a retention of 2 weeks
Monthly runs as calendar based on the first Saturday of the month - starting at 00:10 until 06:00 with a retention of 12 months (open on a Saturday only)
Weekly runs on the second, third, fourth and last Saturday of the month - starting at 00:10 until 06:00 with a retention of 2 weeks (open on a Saturday only)
It is done this way as you do not want calendar based jobs crossing midnight .. the Saturday job is in effect Friday nights backup
Hope this makes sense and helps
