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4.3.3.2 Example 2. Daily full backups with a date stamp

Consider the following scenario:

 You want to perform a daily full backup of your machine.

 You want to move older backups to a remote location by using a script.

In this scenario, create a backup plan with a daily schedule. When creating the backup plan, specify

MyMachine-[DATE] as the archive name, select the Name backup files using the archive name...

check box, and select Full as the backup type.

Result:

 The backups of January 1, 2012, January 2, 2012, and so on, are stored respectively as

MyMachine-[2012-01-01].tib, MyMachine-[2012-01-02].tib, and so on.

 Your script can move older backups based on the date stamp.

See also “The [Date] variable” (p. 54).

4.3.3.3 Example 3. Hourly backups within a day

Consider the following scenario:

 You want to perform hourly backups of your server's critical files every day.

 You want the first backup of each day to be full and to run at midnight; and the subsequent

backups of the day to be differential and to run at 01:00, 02:00, and so on.

 You want to keep older backups in the archive.

In this scenario, create a backup plan with a daily schedule. When creating the backup plan, specify

ServerFiles[Date] as the archive name, select the Name backup files using the archive name… check

box, specify Differential as the backup type, and schedule the backups to run every hour from

midnight.

Result:

 The 24 backups of January 1, 2012, will be stored as ServerFiles[2012-01-01].tib,

ServerFiles[2012-01-01]2.tib, and so on up to ServerFiles[2012-01-01]24.tib.

 The following day, the backups will start with the full backup ServerFiles[2012-01-02].tib.