I'm coming back on following part:

> > OK, now the main question of my post: data retention.
> > I want to have one full month of daily retrievable backups: 
> would this 
> > be achieved by setting ³FullKeepCnt² to 4 and ³IncrKeepCnt² to 24?
> 
> If your months have 28 days, yes. In my personal experience, 
> that is true only for 73.8% of the Februaries. YMMV.

In my actual setup when the oldest FULL gets deleted (because it is now older 
than 4 weeks), do I loose also all the subsequent INCREMENTALS that were done? 
I mean, isn't an INCR backup related to its FULL one? Thus, if the oldest full 
gets outdated, the subsequent INCR ones wouldn't allow me to recover data 
(because of the missing FULL)...

So, wouldn't it make more sense to retain 5 FULL backups?

Any comments will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Flavio Boniforti

PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL
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E-mail: flavio AT piramide DOT ch 

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