GFS "Keep weekly full" when no weekly scheduled

[william88]

Hello,

I would like to know what happens when we activate the "Keep weekly full backups for" option when our backup task does not produce a weekly full backup?
Does this trigger a full backup?

Thanks

[Mildur]

Hi William

May I ask, is your question about backup or backup copy jobs?

- Enabling GFS in a backup job does not create full backups. You must schedule or script your own weekly full backups to leverage weekly GFS backups.
- For backup copy jobs enabling weekly GFS would create weekly full backup copies.

And if you use a object storage repository as a target, GFS backups do not create any full backup. On object storage it is only a tag with a forever forward incremental backup chain.

Best,
Fabian

[william88]

Hi Fabian,

Thank you for your help.
In my case, it's a backup, not a backup copy.

Here's what I'd like to configure :
Backup on sunday and keep the last 4 sundays + backup on the last day of the month (precisely) with retention of the last 12 months (the last day of the last 12 months precisely). Then keep the backup of December 31 of each year precisely (which is therefore in the monthly backups above) for 3 years.
Is this possible without creating too many backup jobs ?

Thank you