How to restore a folder in its last known state with incremental jobs

[hansdeleenheer]

Policy:

Weekly & Monthly Full to disk | Daily & Hourly Incremental to same Disk

Issue: customer deletes an entire folder (or several files in that folder). When starting a restore job we want to restore the entire folder as it was in it last known state. So if we go to the last incremental and start a restore, it only restores the files changed between last 2 incrementals.

Is there a workaround that we dont have to restore the FULL recovery first and afterwards all the incrementals but just launch a restore of that folder to a specific point in time?

[RahulG]

No there is no workaround . you need to restore the full back and then restore the incremental backups because incremental backup only bakcup the files chaged from the last full backup.

[hansdeleenheer]

THX Rahul, got an official KB or something to give the Customer? With Daily AND Hourly incrementals that could take us a while ... :)

[hansdeleenheer]

An idea: can I restore full and all incrementals of that folder in one job just by leaving the "overwrite the file on disk only if it is older"?

[pkh]

Also note that when you restore the full backup and all the incremental backups, you would also get all the files that were deleted from the folder.

[RahulG · Accepted solution]

Yes you can run a full and incremental restore in one job . Its just going to prompt you to insert the  media which contains the full and incremental backup set .

[hansdeleenheer]

I don't think they would mind that issue :) getting more back then wanted is collateral damage.

Thanx for the answers both