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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
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
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
: Diff backups (was RE: Restores from Incremental backups)
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
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
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