Re: [Networker] How to trim the index directories
2010-06-04 14:34:34
In regard to: Re: [Networker] How to trim the index directories, MIchael...:
Why would newer savesets depend on the older, in this case? I realize
I'm
a little thickheaded and not feeling well today, but why would a full
from
9 months ago depend on a full from 13 months ago?
Fulls don't depend on other fulls. It appears you're not familiar with
what a quarterly full backup schedule entails. Examine the "Quarterly"
schedule that's built into NetWorker for one possible example of a
quarterly full.
I could understand if it
were incrementals or differentials, but isn't each full "stand-alone",
so
to speak? Why would one full depend on an earlier full?
They wouldn't. A "quarterly full" means that one full backup is done
approximately every 3 months. For example purposes, let's say a full
is done on January 1, 2010, and the next quarterly full is done on April
1, 2010. The April 1 full does NOT depend on anything before it, but
the *non-full* backups that are done on January 2 through March 31st
*do*
depend on the January 1 2010 full. If you purge that January 1 full
backup, then you've invalidated all of the savesets that depend on it,
so the January 2 - March 31 savesets will be purged the next time an
index check (nsrim) is done.
Ah, now I am following. I was presupposing that a "Quarterly Full" meant
*only* a full backup every quarter (say for servers that don't have data
that changes very often), and no other backups in-between.
Ok, now I understand too. :-) I suppose "quartely full" actually is
vague enough that it could just as likely mean what you were thinking of
as what I was. My experience with schedules labeled "quartely full",
including NetWorker's "Quarterly" schedule, has always meant a full every
3 months + some leveled backups in-between, not just "one full backup
every 3 months". That seems to be the standard backup nomenclature,
even though you're right that's it's vague.
Tim
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