>>>>> On Mon, 03 May 2010 09:25:52 +1200, David Young said: > > That's what I thought :) > > I want to do this for our company's backup retension policy.. maybe > there's a better way? > > I.e., I have 3 backup sets: > > 7 daily "tapes" > 4 weekly "tapes" > 12 monthly "tapes" > > I can restore a file from any day in the past week, any week (but not a > specific day) in the past month, and any month in the past year.
Do you have any Full backups in this schedule? I think relying on a large number of incremental backups is somewhat risky, because it prevents recovery if any one of them is damaged for some reason. Your requirements can be achieved by doing Full backup every month Differential backup every week Incremental backup every day or Full backup every month Full backup every week Differential backup every day You can skip the daily backup on the days when the weekly is done and likewise for weekly/monthly. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
