Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote on 10/04/2013 02:20:19 PM:
> Are all of your backup runs completing every day?
That is also a great question. If your incrementals span more than a
week, there will be more than one full that they depend on. All of the
assumptions you've put in place only work if the backups run exactly the
way they're supposed to; if you do not actually *complete* 6 incrementals
between your fulls, you will have more than 2 full backups!
For testing purposes, I would set FullKeepCnt to 1 and IncKeepCnt to 1;
then you know that there will be only one full that will be kept by the
incremental (meaning that you will bounce between one and two full
backups).
While you're at it, set FullPeriod to 1.97 to accelerate the testing
process.
Then let it run. You should start with 1 full after day 1, then 1 full 1
inc after day 2, then 2 full 1 inc after day 3, then 1 full 1 inc after
day 4, and then alternate between those last two states.
Another way of testing this would be to back up a *MUCH* smaller chunk of
data: say, a few GB. Then let it run with your normal settings and
confirm that everything works like it's supposed to. Then you can expand
the amount of data you back up and see how the space is used on your
backup disk to see if everything is going to fit.
Tim Massey
Out of the Box Solutions, Inc.
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