3 month retention, daily increments, one weekly full

[Rod78]

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?

[tehfiskk]

sure, just cram in an active full once a month and you will be all set!

[Vitaliy S.]

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).

[tehfiskk]

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.

[Vitaliy S.]

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

[tehfiskk]

thanks for clearing that up !

[Rod78]

Thanks