02-18-2015 10:23 AM
Hi,
I need some advice on monthly backups. Right now, I'm running a full backup every Friday. The remaining days are incremental (Sat-Thurs).
The full backups have a data retention of 2 weeks and the incrementals are 1 week. That's all working great but if I needed to create monthly backups, can I bump the full backups up to 4 weeks and leave the incrementals were they're at? I've never understood how to handle the incrementals.
If you need more information, let me know. I want to make sure I'm covered each month.
Thank you!
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02-18-2015 10:18 PM
...configure your weekly backups for 3 weeks and if you want to keep your monthlies for longer, set them for a year.
Thanks!
02-18-2015 11:34 AM
Hi,
Easiest way to do this is to create another job or stage and run this on the last SUnday of every month. Make it a full and you've got your Monthly backup.
Obviously remember to set the correct append/OPP settings for that media set.
Thanks!
02-18-2015 01:11 PM
Ok, so now I have it like this:
Full backups done every Friday ( 4 Week data retention)
Incremental backups done Sat-Thurs (1 week data retention) <<If that make sense?
Duplicate backup last Sunday of every month using the most recent full backup (30 day retention)
Is that a workable setup?
02-18-2015 09:53 PM
02-18-2015 10:18 PM
...configure your weekly backups for 3 weeks and if you want to keep your monthlies for longer, set them for a year.
Thanks!
02-19-2015 07:18 AM
Awesome. Thanks guys.
I got it sorted out thanks to your help.