But what you're proposing doesn't work.  You can't run two fulls, and
then run two different sets of incrementals and have one reference the
first full and one reference the second full.  NW will always reference
the most recent backup.

If cloning takes too long, then perhaps you should fix THAT rather than
design another system that doesn't work.  You need more or faster tape
drives, a faster server, or some optimization to make the cloning go
faster.

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W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies 

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Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:23 AM
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Subject: [Networker] Preparing for levels and incrementals across 2
groups

The reason I was doing it this way was due to the amount of data that
our site backs up in a weekend. I would have to run our clone during a
weekend following our full. Since this would take the majority of the
weekend, we wouldn't have time to run a backup before work started on
Monday. Also, this clone would be a week old at this point. Instead, I
run the "Offsite Full" so that we at least have a current backup.

I agree that cloning would be a better process, I just don't think I can
fit it in within our environment using our current resources.

-Aaron

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