Well, it's still less space than Full/Full/Full... I believe the situation was, someone needing to do a big restore found that incremenatals were excremental. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA ®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof.
Don Kuhlman <drkuhl...@yahoo.com> wrote on 09/16/2009 09:17:56 AM: > I don't know if it was already covered in this thread, but if you're > using Disk backup (a NAS device) aren't you burning up a lot more > space with Full/Diffs vs Full/Incr ? > > Don K > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: David Lum <david....@nwea.org> > To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:58:36 AM > Subject: Diff backups (was RE: Restores from Incremental backups) > > Using good ol' NTBackup at all my garage clients I used to do full's > on weekends and incrementals other times, until I had to do some > restores back to back...holy Mother of God that's a long way around! > I went to fulls/diffs and haven't looked back. > > > David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER > NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION > (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] > Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 2:56 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Restores from Incremental backups > > Agreed.. > > "Synthetic Fulls" have been around for a while. > > -sc > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:24 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Restores from Incremental backups > > Been using Retrospect in this capacity since 2006 so maybe the concept > is > catching on. :) > > - Andy O. > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] > >Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 1:10 PM > >To: NT System Admin Issues > >Subject: RE: Restores from Incremental backups > > > >Synthetic backups are the current buzz word, I've heard it in 2 > different > >pitches in the last 2 weeks. Sounds great if it actually delivers..... > > > ~ 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/> ~ > > > > > ~ 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/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~