Synthetic backup / schedules
- 11 years ago
The synthetic cumulative incremental is not required.
You only need the cumulative if you are spacing out the fulls a long way (and the only reason you need that is that it saves time.)
i.e. you could schedule the following:
1st full backup needs to be a regular non-synthetic backup.
Subsequent incremental backups (non synthetic) run Monday through Friday).
Synth Full then runs every weekend to create a new full building off the previous full and the incremental backups.
Or
1st full backup needs to be a regular non-synthetic backup.
Subsequent incremental backups (non synthetic) run Monday through Friday).
Synth Cumulative then runs every weekend based off the weeks incremental backups.
Synth Full runs once a month to create a new full backup based off the last cumulative incremental backup and the regular incremental backups since the last full.
Deb