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WW_
Level 2
11 years ago

Backup Exec 2012 - Differential/Incremental schedule

Hi, I had the following schedule in BE 2010: Full Backup - last Friday of the month; Incremental backup - each Friday (except the last of the month); Differential backup - Monday, Tuesda...
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  • w-d's avatar
    w-d
    11 years ago

    The simplest way it would be for you to switch to this strategy:

    - Weekly Full on Friday

    - Daily Differentials on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

WW_'s avatar
WW_
Level 2
11 years ago

Full + Differentials will  work for me.

But, there is some inconvenience.

I have about 15TB of data in one of offices (10TB archive storage + 5TB production storage).

Full backup will take about 75-80 hours.

Before I could run full backups on different weekends.

Now I need to switch to Weekly Full +  Daily Differential for the production storage and Yearly Full + Monthly Icremental for the archive.

From my perspective, the restriction of running incremental and differntial backups for the same resource is a bit artificial.

Thanks,

WW