GFS backup scheme with two external HDs

Hi Ross

I don’t believe this is possible, when using advanced retention policies such as GFS you need to backup to persistent (always online and not removable) storage as the backups need to be online at all times so it can keep track of your backups, perform the required incremental, differential backups..etc..etc..

If anyone else has managed to get his working to external medium I would be very keen to know how but I can’t see how it would be possible.

Thanks Datastor,

Well, I'll try it.
The best way to know something is, at least, attempting it.

I will return to tell you the result.

Best regards,
Ross

Is it possible if all backups are full?

Datastor Australia wrote:

Hi Ross

I don’t believe this is possible, when using advanced retention policies such as GFS you need to backup to persistent (always online and not removable) storage as the backups need to be online at all times so it can keep track of your backups, perform the required incremental, differential backups..etc..etc..

If anyone else has managed to get his working to external medium I would be very keen to know how but I can’t see how it would be possible.

Thanks for your answers,

You're right, is not possible the GFS for two hds!

Finally I do a full backup for mondays, and incremental backup for the rest of the days.
I use an hd for a week, and other one for the next week.

Best regards,
Ross

Hi Ross Nav.

How do you configure backup?
Backup type: "Save all backups in one file (recommended)" or "Save each backup in separate files"?
If GFS is not possible, you use "Simple cleanup scheme". What time for delete backups do you define: "Delete the backups and the archives if", "Backups are older than"?

Best regards.

Hi Manel

When backing up to removable media it's always best to use the simplified file naming setting, this means you can't set a cleanup scheme, the reason for this is the software does not know what HDD's is attached and what backups are on what HDD... For example, if you have 2 removable HDD's and perform backups with a 2 week retention policy, when that time to clean up Acronis will try to remove all backups that are over 2 weeks old but not all will be on the attached HDD's as they are spread across multi-pull drives.

When Acronis tries to remove the older backups and sees some files are missing and what is suppose to be on the drive is not it will put breaks on removing or messing around with your backups as it's not 100% sure what it's deleting is correct and if users have changed files names, moved files around..etc..etc..

When using the simplified file naming any full backups will overwrite the previous full backups and any incremental backup will append from the last backup created on the attached drive which sounds to be basically what most in this thread are after.

For more information on Simplified naming please refer to the following link to the ABR11.5 product manual that might be useful:
http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ABR11.5/#10483.html

All the best and hope this gets you all stable backups to your needs and requirements.

P.S. If you need more than one full backup you can always look at scripts to move the backups files around OR create more than a single backup job and run them on alternating weeks/days.

Datastor Australia, the previous question was about vmProtect (at least partially) Because ABR has no such option to save all backups in one file.

Hi Dev-anon,

Thanks for the heads up,

Manel Fonte if you are referring to vmProtect in your post above you might need to re-post your question in the vmProtect forum as this section is related to the ABR product only. If however your question is related to the ABR product the above details in my previous post might be of use to you and hope it helps get your backups running to your needs.

Cheers

Yes, vmProtect.
Sorry, I am a beginner in this forum.

Hi Manel,

No problems at all, what I would suggest is re-posting any questions you have into the following forum section:
http://forum.acronis.com/forums/acronis-business-products-discussions/a…

This will generally help you get answers quicker to your questions and ensure they are more relative to the product you are running

All the best.