Additional Full Backup Schedule

In some cases, you may require to create a periodic full backup weekly or monthly, or quarterly basis to adhere to your organization policy. Also, it is not a best practice to configure a backup job with one full backup followed by forever incremental backups. BDRSuite’s’s Additional full backup option allows you to comply with your requirements by creating a full backup periodically.

The additional full backup resets a backup chain and the subsequent incremental are based on the recent full backup. Running additional full backups frequently may sometimes lead to storage space consumption, you can automatically delete the older full backups chain by setting the appropriate retention policy for the additional full backups or deleting it manually when required.

Enable the additional full backup by toggling the slider to the right. Once enabled you have to specify the scheduling for the synthetic merge to happen.

Specify the Additional full backup frequency. You can specify to run the additional full backups on a weekly or monthly basis.

• If you have scheduled the incremental backups to run Every Few Hours/Min or Daily or After Backup, then you can set the additional full backups frequency as Daily or Weekly or Monthly.
• If you have scheduled the incremental backups to run Weekly or Monthly, then you can set the additional full backups to run on a Weekly or Monthly basis.
• An additional full backup is disabled Manually & One Time backup schedules

If you are selecting the additional full backups to run on a daily basis, then you have to select the start time to run the additional full backups.

If you are selecting the additional full backups to run on a weekly basis, then you have to select a day and start time to run the synthetic merge. You can select one or more days in a week to run the additional full backups.

If you are selecting the additional full backups to happen on a monthly basis, then you have to select the month, select a day in the month and start time to run the additional full backups. You can select one or more months in a year to run the additional full backups.