Any way to force the next delta backup to be full?
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Hey peeps,
We fell victim to the "delta backups always full" issue over Christmas, and just before you released the fix for it we tried deleting and recreating our worst affected backup job that was eating all of our storage at one site.
Before that new job actually finished the fix came out, so I aborted the job and installed the update, expecting the one VM that was still backing up to have been marked as failed and do another full job that evening. But that didn't happen, and instead did a delta.
I'm now not very confident that that VM is safely backed up so I'd like to force the next job to be full. I know I can specify a full backup for every x runs, but is there any way to do this for just the next one?
Cheers for any help.
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Edit your backup job, then your schedule, and check "Force full"
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@olivierlambert Does that change need to be manually reverted or is does it automatically revert following the full backup?
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You need to uncheck it after
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In short, it's made to have one job with multiple schedule, eg one daily schedule only delta, and one weekly schedule with "force full", so the same backup job/chain will contain one full every week-end
@julien-f just to be sure will confirm that -
@mike XO checks existing backups before doing a delta, you should be fine
@olivierlambert Exactly.
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Nice one, thanks guys.
