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You want to perform a daily full backup of your machine.
You want to store the backup on a locally attached USB hard drive in the file MyMachine.tib.
You want each new backup to replace the old one.
In this scenario, create a backup plan with a daily schedule. When creating the backup plan, specify
the USB hard drive as the archive location, specify MyMachine as the archive name, select the Name
backup files using the archive name... check box, and select Full as the backup type.
Result. The archive consists of a single file: MyMachine.tib. This file is deleted before creating a new
backup.
If you choose to back up to a locally attached RDX drive or USB flash drive, you will not see the Name
backup files using the archive name... check box. Instead, make sure that the removable device
mode (p. 197) is set to Removable media.
4.3.3.2 Example 2. Daily full backups with a date stamp
Consider the following scenario:
You want to perform a daily full backup of your machine.
You want to move older backups to a remote location by using a script.
In this scenario, create a backup plan with a daily schedule. When creating the backup plan, specify
MyMachine-[DATE] as the archive name, select the Name backup files using the archive name...
check box, and select Full as the backup type.
Result:
The backups of January 1, 2012, January 2, 2012, and so on, are stored respectively as
MyMachine-[2012-01-01].tib, MyMachine-[2012-01-02].tib, and so on.
Your script can move older backups based on the date stamp.
See also “The [Date] variable” (p. 79).
4.3.3.3 Example 3. Hourly backups within a day
Consider the following scenario:
You want to perform hourly backups of your server's critical files every day.
You want the first backup of each day to be full and to run at midnight; and the subsequent
backups of the day to be differential and to run at 01:00, 02:00, and so on.
You want to keep older backups in the archive.
In this scenario, create a backup plan with a daily schedule. When creating the backup plan, specify
ServerFiles[Date] as the archive name, select the Name backup files using the archive name… check
box, specify Differential as the backup type, and schedule the backups to run every hour from
midnight.
Result:
The 24 backups of January 1, 2012, will be stored as ServerFiles[2012-01-01].tib,
ServerFiles[2012-01-01]2.tib, and so on up to ServerFiles[2012-01-01]24.tib.
The following day, the backups will start with the full backup ServerFiles[2012-01-02].tib.
See also "The [Date] variable" (p. 79).
