Backup Forum - Backup4all

Ok, I think I understand. So it will delete all my incrementals and create a differential from the full backup when the destination is full.

I found this reference helpful: http://www.backup4all.com/kb/how-to-cre ... ackup.html

Ok. I didn't think smart backup ever merges files... I thought it simply deletes the old ones to free up space for new. ref. http://www.backup4all.com/kb/backup-types-115.html Does someone know for sure? Like I stated above I have an incremental job with merge and limit 24 backups My issue is I'm ru...

I have a current job as follows: Every 1st Sat. of the month type Incremental limit number of backups 24 Merge backups yes In other words it's an incremental forever job. My question is what will happen if I change this job to type Smart? Will I loose my 2 years of incremental backups?

"Merging the backups will keep the most recent version for each file. It will combine the currently created backup with the oldest backup version to be deleted." I am trying to understand the above response and overall how merge backups works. How does merge backup work on an incremental j...

Thanks very much.

Thanks for timely response.

I understand differential backups and I believe understand the limit function now...
So with limit backup number, it will only delete the 1st full backup once all the differentials up to the next full backup are deleted right?

Ok i'm still not quite sure on how the limit backups works with a differential. It seems like it was leaving the full backups which was taking up too much space. My backup goes as follows, weekly each Monday thru Friday run independent differential backups: Backup type: Type: Differential Save stora...

You can manually set the affinity to the backup4all process and leave it running....

Can someone please explain exactly how merge backups works? And why it should be off on the above scenario....

Hello,

I am wondering if it can be set to limit the total number of full backups when running a differential or incremental schedule? I am aware of the limit backups setting but I'm not sure how to implement it with a scheduled differential backup.