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3 month retention, daily increments, one weekly full

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What would be the best way of setting up this simple scenario..

- full backup on saturdays. Sunday - Friday are increments
- I want to this chain to be preserved for 3 months.

Is this possible to accomplish with a single job? And using synthetic fulls?
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Re: 3 month retention, daily increments, one weekly full

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sure, just cram in an active full once a month and you will be all set! :)
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Re: 3 month retention, daily increments, one weekly full

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Marcus, the OP needs to have fulls every week ;), so I would suggest either using active fulls or synthetic fulls once a week (on the desired day) with forward incremental backup mode and retention policy settings configured to 90 restore points (30 for each month).
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was rather thinking adding an active full once in a while to the schedule. but maby im too used to using similar funktions with other backup software.
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Yes, active full backups can be indeed useful once in a while, but here is an existing topic for further reading on our current recommended approach > v8 New Forward Incremental-Forever Backup confusion
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thanks for clearing that up !
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Thanks
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