I have recently set up a Urbackup server and have a few questions about best practices and options within the software that I could not find in the documentation. I love the software by the way, it was super easy to set up and has all of the features we need.
Here’s what I would like to know:
- Can I manually set the service priority on windows clients to get faster downloads? I am doing all backups at night or on the weekend so it should not affect our network or servers during business hours. Could I set the priority to medium or high? As of now from my calculations it would take hundreds of hours to complete our backup process at the average current speed.
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Are the incremental backups truly incremental? From my testing it seems as though the incremental backups are pulling files that have not changed which seems more differential than incremental but I could be wrong. - Do the settings on the server override those on the client? Can I leave settings blank on the server to let the client specify any special settings?
- My backup plan is as follows:
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Incremental File every 24 hours -
Full file every 7 days on the weekend -
Max incremental = 14, min = 7 -
Max full incremental = 2, min = 1 -
Incremental Image every 7 days on weekend (currently disabled) -
Full Image every 30 days on weekend -
Max incremental = 14, min = 7 -
Max full = 2, min = 1
Is there anything wrong with my settings? I am backup up around 2.5TB of data and 3.5TB of images to a 12TB array so I am hoping that will be enough space to hold both image and file backups plus incremental. Thanks!