Yes, potentially. But, the primary goal of backups is recovery. You have to balance the ongoing space needs with the time to restore.
With a disk only solution, speed is a little more in your favor, but using DIFFs rather than INCR backups still gives you the advantage if one particular day's backup was bad or unable to restore properly... -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Don Kuhlman <drkuhl...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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/> ~
