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Incremental versus Full Server Backup

Anonymous
2023-11-27T00:11:10+00:00

I have Server 2022. I would like to schedule incremental backup to run Monday-Friday of the each week. Then, on the weekend, when the office is empty, I want to run a full backup.

The intent is three-fold:

  1. Allow a faster backup during the week, because a full backup may take longer that the available time overnight.
  2. Reduce restoration time since I will only have to go back to the last full backup and then retore from each incremental.
  3. Reduce the amount of space required for backups.

I think I remember that with older versions of Windows Server, there was a setting that would allow for such a schedule. But, I cannot seem to find it in Server 2022.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-11-27T07:45:47+00:00

    Hi，

    I don't find such settings on Windows Server 2022. The performance settings of Windows Server Backup can only set the backup option of volumes to full or incremental backup, but no schedule.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-27T12:33:14+00:00

    I know. I can set to back up every day, either incremental or full. But, in previous versions (probably back in 2008), you could select an option that would backup incrementally for a period of time, then do a full backup once a week. This removed the need to spend a lot of time recovering the server - restoring the last full backup, then restoring every incremental going forward.

    Now, I have to set to incremental, then every weekend manually change the backup to full, then after that is done, change it back to incremental. But, once again, Microsoft removed a functionality that was useful.

    It seems that there ought to be a way to programmatically do that as we could do previously.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-30T07:28:27+00:00

    Windows Server Backup manages the backup automatically now in Windows Server 2022. Full backup will be created when

    • 14 incremental backups have occurred since the last full backup
    • More than 14 days have passed since the last full backup
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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-30T09:35:59+00:00

    Does anyone know how to get the backup tool to show more than 7 days of backups in the list? How ca I know when the last full backup was actually completed if I can't see the past 14 days?

    And, the view of the last backup indicates that both a full and incremental backup of the C:\ drive was completed. So, was it an incremental or a full, or is the backup tool doing both (a waste of time and disk space)?

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