Backup Settings Help

[Ryan_Laurie]

Hi everyone, I think I'm confusing myself on a backup plan that I have setup for a customer and need to get your help to make sure I'm doing everything the right way.  I'm doing a local backup to a 2TB hard drive that never leaves the office. What I'm trying to achive is that I do a full backup on Friday and a differential Saturday - Thursday. I only want to keep the backups for 4 weeks so I have the ablilty to restore files back 4 weeks ago on any day. Here is what I have setup:

As you can see I have a daily backup which backups up on Friday and a differential that backs up Saturday - Thursday:

Here is my backup job settings:

Here is my backup to disk folders:

Here is my media settings:

Let me know what you think or if I should make any changes.

Thanks Ryan.

[AmolB]

Its recommended to configure backup jobs to "Overwrite" if its targeted to a B2D folder.

With current setting BE will keep on appending data and eventually you will run out of space.

In BE console, click on Tools->Options->Media management-> Set the overwrite protection level

as "Partial" and select "Use recycable media before using Scratch media".

Make sure AOFO is disabled for Database backups and enabled for flat file backups.

[pkh]

You should not check the "allocate max size" property of the B2D folder.  Otherwise, BE will allocate 100GB for the file even though it needs only 1KB.