How to do an Incremental Archive of VSS

[Zulu11]

Hi,

I have a very large VSS database, i took the complete archival of it on the 10th Dec 2003...now i want to take an archival of the database but an incremental one..i.e. from the 10th Dec 2003 till this date..
I used the option of Archive this version and older and gave the Date as D12/10/2003...but this archives till 10th Dec 2003..and not onwards 10th dec 2003...Is there any way do to an incremental archive or do i have to do a complete archive again...

Thanks in advance

Zulu

 

[aagoyal]

Hi,
Did you get any solution for taking incremental backup in VSS. I am also looking for the same. Please post it here whenever you get any solution.

Thankx in advance

 

[Kate54]

Has your restore facility prior to 101203 worked for you? I added in the date D01/01/03 for the archive which worked. However, when I tried to do a test restore the mechanism hasn't worked.

 

[Zulu11]

hi!

just to let you know that there's no way of doing an incremental archive..you have to do the whole thing..

 

[TomKane]

Hi Zulu11,

Would you mind elaborating on that point? If we wanted to archive history based on a date - how would we get the history back? Would we have to restore it to a blank database - are you saying it's impossible to restore to the database it was incrementally archived from?

Thanks,
Tom