Definition backup full & incremental.

arovella74

Hi,
I have a backup job that uses two S3 repository.

We're having trouble with the fact that instead of distributing executions between both repositories, it's making copies in both. Is there a way to distribute the load between repositories without duplicating them?

On the other hand, we want to make it do a full backup from an incremental backup job every 2 executions and only save the last 4 backups so as not to use more space.

Thanks.

olivierlambert

Hi,

I'm not sure to understand exactly what do you mean. XO is pulling once the data and copying then to all the BR selected. It's the normal behavior.

But I don't get what do you have in mind

arovella74

@olivierlambert The idea is that by putting two S3 repositories together you distribute the copies and don't duplicate them.

DustinB

@arovella74 said in Definition backup full & incremental.:

@olivierlambert The idea is that by putting two S3 repositories together you distribute the copies and don't duplicate them.

You'd have to do this with different backups, or maybe with a Job..

olivierlambert

@arovella74 What do you mean by distributing the copies?

I really don't get it. You can have 2 jobs if you like, with the retention of your choice pointing to 2x different S3 repo.

arovella74

@olivierlambert One of the questions I had in the post was also that we need to solve the problem of purging information older than 2 months and that the jobs we have as incremental backup can be configured to be full every 2 incrementals so we don't save infinite information in S3.

This is a standard configuration that we have with the jobs.

We probably have an error in the job configuration that causes S3 to fill up with objects and we don't get the results we expect with the backups and their debugging.

arovella74

To be really clear, we have two situations:

Our S3 bucket fills up with objects.
We want a full backup to be performed every two incremental runs, so we can keep the S3 bucket in check.

olivierlambert

I would usually continue to assist, but I prefer to be clear in that case: community support isn't here to replace professional support, especially at your scale and with your previous track record.

I would really suggest to contact us: https://vates.tech/contact

DustinB

@arovella74 said in Definition backup full & incremental.:

Our S3 bucket fills up with objects.

Set up retention and deletion rules on your bucket so your bucket is cleaning this out.

@arovella74 said in Definition backup full & incremental.:

We want a full backup to be performed every two incremental runs, so we can keep the S3 bucket in check.

Without more details I'm not sure how you could do that, besides alternating schedules, specifically run an incremental bi-weekly (for simplicity) and then run a full every 3 Saturday.