I'm still not clear on diffs between log/incr and differential

[frypanjack]

I've scoured the docs/KB and forum and am still a bit confused by the above. It seems to me that one would always want to do a full followed by a log/incremental (just as one does the analog for the non-Exchange portion of the system). Doesn't one always want to control the log file size by doing this ? What is Differential in this context ? I know what it means in the normal file system context. Perhaps these issues are best explained by how each affects backups and restores ?

 

Confused up north,

Denis

[natew]

Hi

 

I would suggest this:

Full backups every time you do a recycle backup or switch backup sets.

Every once in a while a log backup shortly after you run a full backup. (Just to truncate the logs)

Differentials/incrementals the rest of the time.

 

Hope that helps

Nate