Weekly Backup Optimal Settings

[mlaviola]

Hi,
I am running a couple of jobs that are only doing weekly Incremental backups with a retention of 5 restore points. Are there any benefits to using Incremental with synthetic fulls? The options for synthetic fulls are only "days" so I don't see the benefit if I create synthetic fulls on the same day the weekly backup runs. If I create a synthetic full on another day then I am now getting two backups weekly, whereas I only need one backup weekly.

Thanks in advance
Matt

[DGrinev]

Hi Matthew,

It seems you are utilizing Forever Forward Incremental backup method so you don't need to create synthetic fulls periodically.
Anyway with the weekly schedule synthetic full doesn't make sense, indeed.
Also, I would recommend you to use SureBackup for recoverability checking as this correlates with the best practices. Thanks!

[mlaviola]

Thank you for the links. I appreciate your reply. Just doing some 'sanity' checking.