Scheduling D2D Backups
Jason Tierney
November 7th, 2006
I am trying to schedule a weekly rotation of disk to disk backups. We would complete a full backup on Sunday nights, then an incremental backup Mon-Sat. The next week, another Full Backup would kick off, to a DIFFERENT folder and another incremental job would kick off Mon-Sat. The idea is that we always have a full week of restore points available to us at any given moment.
I can figure out how to make the jobs and I am playing with policies, but I cannot figure out how to alternate weeks to ensure that the folder change occurs.
Can someone provide some additional insight?
Thanks, Jason
What's the reason for changing folders? Do they have to be in a different location, or could you simply set a long enough retention period to protect the 1st week's Full backups?
I suppose I don't need to change folders. Perhaps I am making this too complex.
Could I accomplish this with two jobs - 1 full and 1 incremental, but set the OPP to 13 days? Would I then set the jobs to overwrite or append?
2 jobs is all you need. Set the jobs to append - that way it makes the most of the storage that you have. The job will switch to overwrite if it can't find appendable media anyway.
Set the OPP for 13 days and the append period to infinite.
You could also try using 2 Media Sets. 1 for the Full backups, 1 for the Inc backups. Depends if you need the flexibility of have different retention periods for Full & Inc.
I'd make the Full OVERWRITE and the Incr APPEND. This way all the data you need for a full restore would be in/on a single backup set
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