Weird problem with 5 weekly backup in 1 month 1

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I am running BE on a daily differential and a weekly normal backup, however I came across a strange problem. I run the weekly backups on friday night, but there are months with 5 fridays. If i run a week 4 and a last week backup, they will stack and backup twice. Anyone know how to backup ONCE per week, even during 5-friday weeks?. Thanks for your time!

M Hannan

 

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I worked around that problem this way

I use a base of 12 tapes in my rotation. That allows me to have two weeks of Differential backups and three weeks of Full backups, and finally, one tape for a monthly long-term archive. They are labeled like this:

Monday Week 1 (Week 2)
Tuesday Week 1 (Week 2)
Wednesday Week 1 (Week 2)
Thursday Week 1 (Week 2)

Friday Week 1 (Week 2, 3)

Friday Monthly Archive

Once created, I change the label on the tape (both physically and in BE) to the exact date of the archive and send it offsite for long-term storage.

Then I get a new tape, initialize it into BE and make it my new Friday Monthly Archive tape.

This way it really doesn't matter which Friday is getting backed up or if a given month has five Fridays. You will always be sure that there will be 28 days (four Fridays) from the time any of the Friday backup jobs will run.

I hope I've explained myself well enough. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to help.