Most people run a full backup weekly and then incrementals in between
and then set your FULL retention to 60 days.  Consider what happens if
1 full went bad? You would be out many weeks of data!

Also, that is a bad way of doing things, 1 full every 4 weeks and X
number of incrementals? You'll spend a VERY long time restoring the
incrementals after you restore the full backup.


On 5/16/06, DLew97 <dlew97 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> Our corporate retention policy for data is 60days guaranteed.
>
> How should I setup my retention periods?
>
> Currently we run a FULL every 4 weeks and a Differential Incremental every
> day.
>
> I have 60 days set for the incremental and 90 days set for the full.  I am
> not sure if this setting is correct.  I need to guarantee 60 days of data at
> all times.  I am afraid that the earlier FULL is needed to do a restoration
> if the the file has not been picked up by the incrementals.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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> DLew97