Thanks to all who responded. I don't know why I have such a hard time
remembering this stuff but seems I've asked this before. You guys always
show your solidarity by answering them, though.
I've printed out your answers this time for safe keeping.
Thanks again.
George
Dave Mussulman wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:28:29AM -0500, George Sinclair wrote:
> > Mon=full, Tue=incr, Wed=incr, Thu=incr, Fri=level5, Sat=incr.
> >
> > 1. Does the Sat incr capture all changed files since Fri, or does it
> > instead capture all changed files since Thu?
> >
> > I was kinda stumped on this question, but I thought it would capture all
> > changes since Fri.
>
> The Unix nwadmin GUI Indexes menu shows the dependencies in a tree-form
> which makes things a little simpler. Saturday's incremental grabs all
> the changes since Friday. Doing a restore from Thursday may require
> tapes from Monday, Tues, Wed, and Thurs. Doing a restore from Saturday,
> might require Monday, Friday, and Saturday.
>
> > 2. We typically run descending levels throughout the month with
> > incrmentals and then a full at the end of the month. I was operating
> > under the assumption that if someone needed to rebuild something, at
> > worst case, they would need the last full tape(s), the most recent level
> > backup tape(s), and then all incremental tape(s) after that. In other
> > words, if you were performing a saveset recover (so you're doing this
> > manually) of an entire file system as it most recently existed, then you
> > would select the most recent full instance, the most recent level
> > instance and all incrmentals after that, yes?
>
> Sounds right to me, although I don't know if I've ever done that saveset
> recover progression. It sounds like what the recover program is doing
> in that situation, though...
>
> > 3. Also, what would happen in the following scenario:
> >
> > Mon=full, Tue=incr, Wed=incr, Thu=level5, Fri=incr, Sat=incr, Sun=level5
> >
> > Will Sunday's level 5 capture all changes since Thursday's level 5 or
> > will it, too, go all the way back to Monday just like the first level 5
> > did?
>
> Doing a later backup of the same level as a previous one will 'absorb'
> the previous level. To slightly change your example,
>
> Mon=Full, Tues=inc, Wed=inc, Thu=level5, Fri=inc, Sat=level5, Sun=inc
>
> To do a restore from Sunday, you would only need Monday, Saturday, and
> Sunday. Our real-world example: we do incrementals on the weekday,
> level5 backups on the weekends, level 3s monthly, fulls quarterly.
> Worst case scenario for a restore (needing a full restore on the last
> day of the quarter before the next full,) would require the fulls, the
> last level 3, the last level 5, and the incrementals since the last
> level 5.
>
> Does that make things cleaer?
>
> Dave
>
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