2012-DPM Incremental Backup Issue

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  Hello,

  we have deployed the DPM 2012 SP1 and now we are able to do full backups only. we don’t see any option to do an Incremental backups. we have check over all but we couldn’t find any option

  Could you please clarify the below scenarios

   

  ü  How to configure and schedule tapes for Daily ,Weekly , Monthly & Yearly backup

  ü  we need to know if we can able to restore any day deleted files from the weekly, monthly or yearly backup

  ü  How to configure the pool for Tape Library in DPM 2012

   

  We want to achieve this below scenario:

   

  ü  Need daily backup form Sunday to Friday à retention period 6 days   

  ü  Weekly backup on Saturday  à retention period 4 weeks  

  ü  Monthly backup last day of the month à 1 year

  ü  Yearly Backup end of the year à Life time

   

  Our issue:

   

  ü  We can’t able to restore any particular deleted day file form weekly backup & month end backup as well

  ü  We notice that Daily ,weekly & monthly is taking the full backup instead of incremental

  So please advise and Appreciate your early response.

  Regards

  Yuvi

  • Merged by Mike JacquetMicrosoft employee Wednesday, October 9, 2013 3:58 AM same questions

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  Hi,

  DPM gives you option for incremental tape backups only as a short term tape backup goal. If you are doing short-term disk protection, then all long term tape backup goals are full backup only.

  If you want the ability to perform a restore for ANY FILE from long term tapes on a daily basis, then you need to perform daily tape backups and keep them for a longer period.  Longer backup goals like weekly / monthly etc are "point in time" copy backups taken from the previous "latest" tape backup.  So they simply represent the data that was backed up on "That Day" and not for file versions for the whole week / month / year.

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  • Edited by Mike JacquetMicrosoft employee Tuesday, October 8, 2013 6:40 PM
  • Proposed as answer by Mike JacquetMicrosoft employee Tuesday, October 8, 2013 6:40 PM
  • Marked as answer by Tamizh Maran Wednesday, October 9, 2013 7:16 AM

  Tuesday, October 8, 2013 6:39 PM