Hi Itamar, thanks, that clarifies things. I think it would be a good idea for you guys to update the page on incremental backup to explain that this is how it works, to avoid confusion. The thing you're describing, I would call maybe "differential backup/copy", rather than "incremenetal".
As for backup strategy, in fact we have our server running on a VM, from which we take a replica/backup every night, at a different time from when the Artifactory backup runs. So, we never need to do a full backup. Regards, Hugh Greene, Senior Software Developer Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems Europe, Ltd Bonnington Bond, 2 Anderson Place, Edinburgh EH6 5NP, UK Tel + 44 (0)131 472 4792 / Fax + 44 (0) 131 472 4799 http://www.tmvse.com / mailto:[email protected] DISCLAIMER Unless indicated otherwise, the information contained in this message is privileged and confidential, and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above and others who have been specifically authorized to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message and/or attachments is strictly prohibited. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. Furthermore, the company does not warrant a proper and complete transmission of this information, nor does it accept liability for any delays. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the message. -----Original Message----- From: itamarb [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 04 August 2014 18:45 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Artifactory-users] Question about incremental backup behaviour Hi Hugh, The incremental backup, as you suspected, deletes artifacts that no longer exist in Artifactory from the backup folder. A full backup, opposed to an incremental one, stays complete once it is finished, and the next full backup simply creates another backup, you can of course set it up to keep only a specified number of complete backups. The recommended setup is to set-up at least one incremental backup job (usually a daily one) and one full backup (usually a weekly backup), if you set the full backup as weekly, we recommend setting the retention period hours to more than 168 hours (1 week), this way, the first backup will be kept intact, and when the second one finishes, the first one will still not be 168 hours old, so i t will not be deleted and you would have 2 full backups intact, only the third successful full backup will delete the first one. Hope this helps, Itamar -- View this message in context: http://forums.jfrog.org/Question-about-incremental-backup-behaviour-tp7579837p7579937.html Sent from the Artifactory - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Artifactory-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/artifactory-users ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Artifactory-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/artifactory-users
