Incremental Backup Question

[Valmas]

I'm wondering about Incremental backup dependencies.  I use backup exec 2014.

I have several backup sets.  Daily, Bi-Weekly, Monthly, Yearly.  My daily backup sets are incremental.  Bi-weekly, monthly, and yearly are all full backups.

My incremental ones I have noticed are incremental off of the last incremental backup... rather then the last full backup.  What I really want to happen for storage purposes is my incremental backups be based off my bi-weekly backups.  That way I don't have a cascading incremental backup that I don't really need.

Hopefully this makes sense?  How do I configure this??

Thanks, Shark

[AmolB · Accepted solution]

If you want to backup all the modified files since the last full back then instead of incremental you

should configure a differential backup. For more information refer to the below article.

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.HOWTO98909

[pkh]

What you want is differential backup, but there are advantages to using incremental backups.  See my article below

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/pros-and-cons-various-backup-schemes