Reducing from day to week to month over time
New user here trying to learn the ins and outs of the program.
I like how NSB reduces the backup sets over time, hourly for first day, then daily for a period, then weekly etc.
Is this something that can be replicated with the other backup schemes? Eg, I can keep daily backups for a week, then only weekly for next 3 weeks, then monthly for rest of year?
Hi Steve,
Yes, I was referring to how NSB users hourly backups for first day, then ditches them to only keep daily for the next week, then weekly for the last month etc. Very similar to how Time Machine works on my Mac. And I was able to set up a similar retention scheme for any backup I created when I used Crashplan, but with a lot more control.
Unless I've missed something, so far it looks like only NSB is able to have that level of control over the backup versions. As I'm new, I was wondering if manually created backup schemes could also be setup to do something similar and I just haven't found it yet. So far it looks like if I setup a daily backup scheme, then it's going to just do that. There is no option to say, 'but after a month, remove all but one per week', that I can find. My only option seems to be, 'start deleting them after a certain amount of time OR number of backups'.
Craig, on the task Schedule panel, you can opt for every 1 to 8 hours, or 2 x daily etc for how often the backup runs, then on the Backup Scheme panel, use the automatic cleanup options to cleanup based on age (# of days from when a new Full is created) or number of complete versions, for when the oldest version chains are removed.
Hi Steve,
Yes, I've looked at the scheduler. But I can't see how you can set it up to reduce the frequency of backups over time, like NSB does. I can only set a period where it starts removing all backups.
I don't think I'm explaining myself very well. Here is what I can do in Crashplan for any backup, can I do this in TI for any backup? Or is it only the NSB that can do something similar.
Craig, sorry but there are no equivalent options available in True Image.