From: lordsporkton <lor...@gm...> - 2012-06-12 00:47:05
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Is there a recommended way to do archiving on a file server? Basically I want the backup to contain every given file the file server has ever had in every version. I was thinking maybe just do one full backup to start with and then hold infinite incrementals? Is that possible? I think I would just configure the backup to never do fulls, only incrementals and do the first full manually? Thank you Lawrence |
From: Les M. <les...@gm...> - 2012-06-12 01:40:15
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On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:46 PM, lordsporkton <lor...@gm...> wrote: > > Is there a recommended way to do archiving on a file server? > Basically I want the backup to contain every given file the file server > has ever had in every version. > > I was thinking maybe just do one full backup to start with and then hold > infinite incrementals? > > Is that possible? I think I would just configure the backup to never do > fulls, only incrementals and do the first full manually? All you have to do is set the FullKeepCnt and IncrkeepCnt to very large numbers and they won't expire. Whether you do full or incremental runs doesn't matter in terms of what is stored - you only keep one copy of identical content regardless of where or how it is backed up. Incrementals copy everything that has changed since the previous full run, so normally you want fairly frequent fulls to reset the base for the incrementals and to make sure you have good copies of everything. Note that this still isn't necessarly 'every' version that has been on the targets, just every version that was there during the backup runs. -- Les Mikesell les...@gm... |