Backup retention period questions
I have a question regarding the backup retention period and restoration. Before i go to my question,please help me to elaborate the scenario that igive below. Let's say my daily incremental backup set to 2 weeks and the weekly full backup set to 3 months. Daily backup: -------------------- 1 Oct 18 ---- retention 2 weeks -----> 15 Oct 18 2 Oct 18 ---- retention 2 weeks -----> 16 Oct 18 3 Oct 18 ---- retention 2 weeks -----> 17 Oct 18 4 Oct 18 ---- retention 2 weeks -----> 18 Oct 18 5 Oct 18 ---- retention 2 weeks -----> 19 Oct 18 6 Oct 18 ---- retention 3 months ----> 6 Jan 19 One day on 27 Oct 18, a userreport that his file was missing after 2 Oct 18 and request to restore it. Which mean his file still available before 2 Oct or 1 Oct, but the 1 Oct 18 daily backup image already expired.Is the backup engineer still able to find the missing file and restore it? What my question here is when 6 Oct 18 start a full backup, will itbackup the 1 Oct missing file also? or it will onlybackup the latest state like 5 Oct. Hope anyone here can understand my question. Thank you.Solved2.7KViews0likes8Comments