I'd be interested in that too, as I can't imagine a reason to do
incrementals forever. Generally, you do fulls every week (OK, at least on
mainframes, there, I said it.) Then you incremental during the week, and
full again on the weekend.



At 13:18 01-05-00 -0400, you wrote:

Anybody know of any document that explains in detail what the theory is behind
the "incremental forever" backup method.  I constantly get asked why we
don't do
full backups.

If you respond please respond to my e-mail as well as the list.

Thanks,
Jack

Doug Fuerst