gael Posted July 1, 2002 Report Share Posted July 1, 2002 I am using incremental backup on a hard-disk which is now full. Is there a way to "collapse" the incremental backups into a full backup? (i.e. trading off history for disk space, at specified intervals of time). Such feature would remove the need of a new full backup once the disk is full... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lv2ski Posted July 2, 2002 Report Share Posted July 2, 2002 It's called a Recycle backup. It will erase the file backupset and rebackup everything again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gael Posted July 2, 2002 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2002 The "rebackup everything again" part of your answer sounds like a full backup from scratch, which is exactly what I am trying to avoid (that takes 24 hours). Since the sum of incremental backups does consistute a complete backup, I would just like to collapse all incremental runs into a single backup set, which in turn should contain the same data as a "recycle backup". This would save time AND hassle: all clients are laptops, which means I have to enforce all laptops to stay in the office to perform such recycle/full backup. My ideal strategy would then be: - incremental backup on HD, every week day, - archive incremental backup set on tape, Saturday - collapse incremental backup set on HD, Sunday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lv2ski Posted July 2, 2002 Report Share Posted July 2, 2002 I do not believe Retrospect cannot do what you wanted. Retrospect can either do an incremental which appends new or changed data to your backup media. OR A recycle which completely erases everything and rebacks up everything - full backup. Sorry about that. Melissa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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