Health check when doing weekly active fulls

[chris-au]

Hi,

Is there any point in doing a health check on a backup job if it has a scheduled weekly active full backup? I understand health checks are important if doing forever incremental or synthetic fulls.

For example, take the job setup below. Would there be any advantage to performing a health check on Sunday?

Scheduled daily
Forward incremental
Keep 14 restore points
Active full every Saturday

This job is relatively low in size and doing an active full appears to be quicker than doing a health check each week.

[DGrinev]

Hi Chris,

Your understanding is correct, but it's recommended to schedule a health check at least once a month or you can use even better solution for recovery check which is SureBackup job. Thanks!

[wishr]

Hi Chris,

Foggy has also suggested an alternative in this thread. Please take a look - there is a variety of options for performing Health Checks.

Thanks

[foggy]

Active full every Saturday

This job is relatively low in size and doing an active full appears to be quicker than doing a health check each week.

In this setup health check on Sunday doesn't make much sense, indeed. It will just check the Sunday's restore point, which has most of its blocks in the fresh Saturday's full, so will basically verify whether the data landed "yesterday" is still correct.