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Good day,

My client is very happy with this backup solution and we just recently purchase the license for his Data center. In that being said I have a question about scheduling weekly Full and Daily incremental.

When I create a schedule and select the option "Weekly Full, Daily incremental", Mon to Friday contains a check box, does that mean that between Mon to Friday only files that have changed will be backed up and Sat and Sunday it will be a full backup, thats how I read it but the Sat and Sun does not contain a check box. Does it want us to create another schedule backup for the Sat and Sat to perform a full? The boxes are throwing me off. 

Just trying to wrap my head around the wording that is being used vs what is being displayed aka check boxes.

Thank you

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Hi,

"Weekly Full, Daily Incremental" means a incremental backup each day you select and doing a full backup instead on the day selected in Options -> Weekly Backups.

From the help docs:

Weekly full, Daily incremental

By default, backups are performed on a daily basis, Monday to Friday. You can modify the days of the week and the time to run the backup.

A full backup is created once a week. All other backups are incremental. The day on which the full backup is created depends on the Weekly backup option (click the gear icon, then Backup options > Weekly backup).

Ref: Backup Schedule

Thanks for the prompt reply and the clearfication that makes more sense. 

In that being said, If I have Mon-Friday selected and the weekly backup is set to Sat, would the weekly full backup (Saturday) still run even though its not selected via check box and I assume come Sunday the job doesnt run correctly?

Thank you

That's right, the checkboxes are only for incremental backup selection. Weekly backup is done separately (option settings).

Hi

Let me correct Raphael.

"Weekly backup" defines which day is treated as first day of the week. It does not mean that backup will be done at that day.

"Weekly full, daily incremental" means that first backup of the week will be full.

If your schedule is "start at Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday" then full backup will be on Tuesday (because it is the first backup for that week) and other backups on that week will be incremental.

Hi Ramil,

So when "start at Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday" is selected and "Sunday" in defined as Start of Week in Options a full backup will be performed on Tuesday, not on Sunday?

Ok, I haven't understood the documentation correctly, thanks for correcting!

Hi Ramil,

That will make more sense because my backup didnt run on the day I had "Weekly Full" set to which is Sunday the check boxes didnt have Sun as checked and only had Tues,Wed,Thursday.

Thank you very much for the clearfication. Thanks Raphael as well.

Warm regards,