rfips
May 12th, 2006, 02:21 PM
Hi. I am new to network administration and have been assigned the task of fixing our backup procedures and need a little help honing the backup strategy that is in place. We are a SBS 2003 environment with XP clients.
Our current backup strategy consists of this:
Week 1 Full Backup runs once every two weeks on Fridays
Week 1 Incremental Backup runs over Week 1 Full and runs on M/T/W/Th every two weeks
Then there is an identical configuration but it is titled Week 2 instead and runs on the alternative weeks; I am told this way we will have two full weeks of backup.
My problem is this: My Week 1 & 2 backups will overwrite so there is only ever one file in the folder that stores them (folders are called Week1Full & Week2 Full). When I configure the incremental backups and am asked what file to append I choose the Full back up for the corresponding week. What ends up happening is that the first file in the incremental folder is actually a full backup then the additional files are incrementals; then, the files just keep increasing and appending the name with a number (ie, the first one is call Week1Inc1, Week1Inc2, Week1Inc3, etc). The files never overwrite and the disk gets full so I have to manually delete backups.
I guess what I need to know is what am I doing wrong? How do I go about configuring a backup strategy that will run one full back up once a week and incremental backups the other days.
I hope this isn't confusing, I'm a little confused just reading it. Please let me know if you need additional clarification.
thx!
Our current backup strategy consists of this:
Week 1 Full Backup runs once every two weeks on Fridays
Week 1 Incremental Backup runs over Week 1 Full and runs on M/T/W/Th every two weeks
Then there is an identical configuration but it is titled Week 2 instead and runs on the alternative weeks; I am told this way we will have two full weeks of backup.
My problem is this: My Week 1 & 2 backups will overwrite so there is only ever one file in the folder that stores them (folders are called Week1Full & Week2 Full). When I configure the incremental backups and am asked what file to append I choose the Full back up for the corresponding week. What ends up happening is that the first file in the incremental folder is actually a full backup then the additional files are incrementals; then, the files just keep increasing and appending the name with a number (ie, the first one is call Week1Inc1, Week1Inc2, Week1Inc3, etc). The files never overwrite and the disk gets full so I have to manually delete backups.
I guess what I need to know is what am I doing wrong? How do I go about configuring a backup strategy that will run one full back up once a week and incremental backups the other days.
I hope this isn't confusing, I'm a little confused just reading it. Please let me know if you need additional clarification.
thx!