Big Brother tells me that Eduardo Martinez wrote:
> Im trying to define a backup strategy that involves backing up my boxes
> on a daily, weekly, monthly (full) and yearly (full) basis.
> Daily backups will last only 3 days, weekly ones only three weeks,
> monthly 3 months and yearly 3 years (because of taxes purposes).
>
> Is it a good strategy to mix archiving and incremental back ups with
> this schema?
> Since monthly and yearly are the ones which last more, will it be
> convinient to archive these, and do an incremental on the other ones?
>
> I havent used too much the archive option, so I havent seen a real
> useful usage of this option.
A lot depends on how much data you actualy have, but...
I would recommend that you do regular incremental backups of your
data, and periodically make backupsets of your nodes (see GENERATE
BACKUPSET). Alternately, you can EXPORT NODE FILEDATA=ALL all of your
nodes to a set of tapes, which you can then date and store.
Either of these will give you point in time restores to any point
in time in which you exported or made a backupset.
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