clewis Posted March 28, 2005 Report Share Posted March 28, 2005 I recently switched from CDs to two external hard drives for backups (alternating weeks with one drive kept off-site). It is soooo much easier. When I set up the new script with EasyScript, it scheduled only normal backups, with no new-media backups. Is that the recommended way to do backups to a hard disk--an initial full system backup followed by daily incremental backups forever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awnews Posted March 28, 2005 Report Share Posted March 28, 2005 "an initial full system backup followed by daily incremental backups forever" Even with a big HD, the HD will eventually runith-over. And you'll probably have more incremental backups that you really need. You should have more than one backup set in case something goes wrong with one of them. There are a lot of strategies that work and are suited to particular needs (alternating backups (daily, weekly, triple/quad, etc.), short and long-term sets, on & off-site, etc.). You might want to look up "Recycle" for occasionally purging backup sets. And, if you're using Retrospect 7, the new "Grooming" feature (with Disk Backups) may be a way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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