Adam,
We were only doing incrementals and we had a situation where we had to restore a
Novell server.
The restore had to go through two years worth of incremental tapes to complete
the restore. I would
strongly recommend doing periodic fulls (and colocation) unless you have a SLA
which allows for extremely long restores.
Regards, Tim
NAFTA IS Technical Operations
(203) 812-3469
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Adam J Boyer
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Hey,
Our management is wondering if it's safe to just do incrementals
forever, or whether we should try to do a forced full every few months
to keep things fresh. Our experience has been that the incremental
system works great-- we once restored a whole raid 5 array, with many
files from years ago. But, nonetheless, I'd appreciate any stories or
testaments to help build a case.
Thanks much,
adam
