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[jritson]

I'll readily admit that I am lost amidst all of the different terms and such and need some help.

I want to backup some folders and be able to go back no more than 7 days to restore one or more files. So that's a full backup on Sunday and incrementals Monday through Saturday. If I only want to maintain one-week is that a single recovery point? 

[dickevans Super RootKit Eradicator]

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jritson wrote:

I'll readily admit that I am lost amidst all of the different terms and such and need some help.

I want to backup some folders and be able to go back no more than 7 days to restore one or more files. So that's a full backup on Sunday and incrementals Monday through Saturday. If I only want to maintain one-week is that a single recovery point? 

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Welcome,

Yes, BUT make sure you have room enough for a second full backup. Ghost will make the second one and insure that it is valid BEFORE it deletes the older [first] one.

Hope this helps

[DaveH]

It would actually be known as one "recovery point set"

The base image is a single recovery point.  The base image plus the incrementals are 6 more recovery points.

The whole weeks schedule makes a recovery point set

Dave

[jritson]

Thanks for the clarification, Dave. I set the backup job to maintain 1 recovery point set. 

[DaveH]

That would be the setting to do what you want.

The next Sunday it will first create a new base image, then it will delete the entire set of the previous week.

Leaving you always with between 1 and 7 actual recovery points

If you happen to have more space, we would reccomend more than one set in case you find that you have a operating system problem or missing data that happened longer than a week ago.

But if your limited with space, I guess any recovery point is better than none.

Dave

[dickevans Super RootKit Eradicator]

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DaveH wrote:

That would be the setting to do what you want.

The next Sunday it will first create a new base image, then it will delete the entire set of the previous week.

Leaving you always with between 1 and 7 actual recovery points

If you happen to have more space, we would reccomend more than one set in case you find that you have a operating system problem or missing data that happened longer than a week ago.

But if your limited with space, I guess any recovery point is better than none.

Dave

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Amen