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Validation of Incremetal Backups

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I would like to set up an incremental backup that runs a new full backup weekly and runs incremetals over the rest of the week. What is the best way to validate incremental backups?

If I validate the initial backup each week and specify a daily incremental with validation will the daily incremetals re-validate the initial backup and all intervening incrementals or will it simply validate only the current incremental?

 

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Steve, my understanding is that validation works for the whole version chain so would validate the initial full backup file plus all available incremental backup files for that version chain.

Personally, I do not do validation at the same time as doing a backup.  You can schedule validation to run at a different time, so that you are not doing this activity daily.  This is handled in the Advanced Options section for validation.