Ghost 15 Backup Scheduling - Please Help

Hi All!

 

I'm using Ghost 15 doing full weekly backups and daily incrementals, but manually deleting older backups.

 

What I'd like to automate is the following:  Do a full backup on Friday night.  Do incremental backups until the following Thursday night (so 6 incrementals).  On Friday night do another full backup.  Repeat incrementals.  Keep 2 weeks of full and incremental backups and then delete the older ones.  At month end, do a full backup.  Keep 3 months of full monthly backups, except for Decembers monthly backup which is always kept.

 

I'm sure Ghost can do this but I'm having troubles automating it.

 

Many thanks!

 

dFish

I don't think you can have more than one schedule per drive. This would be needed to do what you want.


dFish wrote:

Hi All!

 

I'm using Ghost 15 doing full weekly backups and daily incrementals, but manually deleting older backups.

 

What I'd like to automate is the following:  Do a full backup on Friday night.  Do incremental backups until the following Thursday night (so 6 incrementals).  On Friday night do another full backup.  Repeat incrementals.  Keep 2 weeks of full and incremental backups and then delete the older ones.  At month end, do a full backup.  Keep 3 months of full monthly backups, except for Decembers monthly backup which is always kept.

 

I'm sure Ghost can do this but I'm having troubles automating it.

 

Many thanks!

 

dFish


Hi,
The weekly full backup with nightly incrementals is a backup job with the number of backups to keep set at two. It will make the third then backup the oldest one.

The monthly backup is a separate backup job [be sure to watch your times so there is no conflict with the nightly one] Set this one to keep three. There will no incrementals with this job.

The 'always keep' December backup should be its own backup job so as not to confuse the monthly job. Here too you need to separate it by day and time from the other jobs. Good think that the nights in December are long :smileywink:

Keep us posted


redk9258 wrote:

I don't think you can have more than one schedule per drive. This would be needed to do what you want.


Hi,
Even if you have different destinations?

Thanks

It looks like you CAN do an independent backup, not increntals though.

OK, so then we can have the weekly with incrementals and do independent monthly's with a copy to a new location for the December backup so is kept it when the others are deleted?

Correct. You can have multiple jobs for one drive, but only one of them can be base+incremental. The others have to be base images. (Each drive can have only 1 incremental (vdiff) table,)


andreash_utah wrote:

Correct. You can have multiple jobs for one drive, but only one of them can be base+incremental. The others have to be base images. (Each drive can have only 1 incremental (vdiff) table,)


Thanks for the confirmation :smileyhappy: