You may want to switch from incrementals to differentials .... You run a FULL backup on Friday... Monday you run a backup for files that changed since the full backup ( no different than incremental here ) Tuesday you run a backup for files that changed since the full backup ( including what was backed up Monday ) Wednesday you run a backup for files that changed since the full backup ( including Monday and Tuesday ) Thursday you run a backup for files that changed since the full backup ( Mon, Tues, Wed ) Etc, etc, etc depending on whether you do weekly, or monthly full backups...
Then you need only restore from the newest FULL backup, and the newest DIFFERENTIAL backup since the FULL was run Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security -----Original Message----- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Restores from Incremental backups Currently my backup plan consists of doing Incrementals Mon-Thu, and a Full on Friday. This has worked well. IF I switch to a Full once a month, and Incrementals each day for the remainder of the month how difficult does this make my restores? Lets say on October 1st I do a Full backup. I have Incrementals from October 2nd to October 28th. On the 29th, a user's home folder is completely wiped, for example. When I create the Restore Job, I am using "View by Resource" and I find the (for example) \\server\share\path\path\username folder from the Full backup on October 1st. Now, I also have to find each instance of \\server\share\path\path\username under "View by Resource" for EACH date, October 2nd through October 28th, to make sure all files are restored since the Full backup. That should successfully restore all the users data to the latest date, October 28th. BUT..... Is there an EASIER way to do this? Having to navigate through "View by Resource" for 29 different days and selecting each day is, cumbersome... Is there an EASIER way to way incremental restores I'm not thinking of??(we're on version 12.5) (I was hoping there's some option for "restore the entire contents of this particular folder going back to such and such date")??? Thanks -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
