On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Jim Ryan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> we do full backups every night and i wanted to change to partials during
> the week and a full on Sunday. what is the option for this? thank you.
>

Since everyone seems to be running in circles on answering this question....

First, you need to decide what kind of partial you want to do.  On Tuesday,
do you want to backup all files changed since Sunday's full backup or do
you want to backup all files changed since Monday's backup?  (and so on....)

There are some things to think about here.

If your "line in the sand" is always Sunday -- then you have to deal with
knowing that by Friday/Saturday your "partial" backup is likely going to be
sizeable and will take longer to run.  Otoh, if you ever have to do a *big*
restore, your restore plan is plan is pretty simple -- you'll need your
last partial and your last full backup.

If your "line in the sand" is always "yesterday" -- then your "partial"
backups will be relatively small and quick but the flip-side is your *big*
restore could be very complicated since you'll need every partial back
through Monday plus your full backup.

Fwiw, I think most people set the backup date as "Sunday" and do partials
from there.

The technical bit that you're really asking about is:

          restore ....;date>=!my_lastfull

"!my_lastfull" is (hopefully obviously) a CI variable that contains a date
in "mm/dd/[yy]yy" format.  This is a value that your *full backup job*
needs to establish.  So your full backup job should do something like:

          file lastfull,old
          echo !hpmonth/!hpday/!hpyear>*lastful

Your partial job will need to do something like this:

          file lastfull,old
          input my_lastfull < *lastfull

There's plenty of logic that needs to be added to the above examples.
 (You'll note that there is NO error checking/what-if handling, etc.)  This
should be enough to get you started.

Btw, the following is the link for the latest store manual:

http://www.teamnaconsulting.com/compresources/pdfs/B5151-90003.pdf

      - donna

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