>>>>> "dboyes" == David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
dboyes> I agree with you. It's dumb to do an incremental
dboyes> followed immediately by a full backup if they're
dboyes> going to dump the same data in roughly the same
dboyes> timeframe.
What if the incremental and full backups are to different media?
My practice is to have separate Incremental and Full pools, and
to run the daily Incremental even on Full Backup day, so that if
there is a media error on the Full tape, I still have a
reasonable hope of restoring everything to the state of that day,
using the combination of the previous Full tape, and the
intervening Incrementals.
In my setup, the Incrementals usually complete before any of the
Fulls start, but if something should prolong the Incremental so
it is still running after the Full starts, I could still see a
point to letting the Incremental run (unless its start time is
delayed to the point where it is basing its choice of what to
back up on the time of the concurrently running Full, rather than
the previous Incremental).
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