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4.3.3.4 Example 4. Daily full backups with daily drive swaps
Consider the following scenario:
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 have two such drives. You want to swap them before each backup so that one drive contains
today’s backup and the other drive yesterday’s backup.
You want each new backup to replace the backup on the currently attached drive.
In this scenario, create a backup plan with a daily schedule. When creating the backup plan:
Specify MyMachine as the archive name.
In Windows, specify D:\ as the archive location, where D is the letter each of the drives has in the
operating system when attached to the machine.
In Linux, create a directory such as /mnt/backup and specify it as the archive location. Each time
you attach a drive, make sure to mount it to the mount point /mnt/backup.
Select the Name backup files using the archive name... check box.
Select Full as the backup type.
Result. Each hard disk drive will contain one full backup. While one drive is attached to the machine,
you can keep the other drive off-site for extra data protection.
In Windows, if you choose to back up to locally attached RDX drives or USB flash drives, the Name
backup files using the archive name... check box does not appear. Instead, make sure that the
removable device mode (p. 197) is set to Removable media.
4.3.3.5 Example 5. Daily backups with weekly drive swaps
Consider the following scenario:
You want to perform daily backups of your machine: a full backup each Monday and incremental
backups on Tuesday through Sunday.
You want to store the backups on a locally attached USB hard drive in the archive MyMachine.
You have two such drives. You want to swap them each Monday so that one drive contains
backups of the current week (Monday through Sunday), and the other drive those of the
previous week.
In this scenario, you need to create two backup plans as follows:
a) When creating the first backup plan:
Specify MyMachine as the archive name.
In Windows, specify D:\ as the archive location, where D is the letter either of the drives has
in the operating system when attached to the machine.
In Linux, create a directory such as /mnt/backup and specify it as the archive location. Each
time you attach a drive, make sure to mount it to the mount point /mnt/backup.
Select the Name backup files using the archive name... check box.
Select Full as the backup type.
Schedule the backups to run every week on Monday.
b) When creating the second backup plan, specify the same settings as in the first backup plan, but
select Incremental as the backup type and schedule the backups to run every week on Tuesday
through Sunday.
