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E3. Progressive daily - New weekly
This strategy involves one script. This script will backup
information from your source to your backup set. Schedule a
normal progressive backup Monday through Thursday.
Schedule the same script for a Full backup every Friday. Each
will have separate names. If the backup set is named My
Documents, the new Full backup will be named My
Documents-001. Each full backup will add a number after the
name - My Documents-001, My Documents-002, etc. You may
extend this schedule so that a full backup only occurs once a
month or at whatever time you want. This strategy is useful to
reduce the size of your backup set. Once the full backup
occurs, the progressive backup starting Monday will use full
backup as starting point. In other words you can take the
previous Friday - Thursday set offsite because they are no
longer needed in the new set.
Follow these steps to implement this strategy:
1. Setup a backup script using the instructions in Section 4C.
2. Schedule the script to run Monday through Thursday as
shown below. Set the Action to Normal (default).
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