Vps – How to backup a linode 360 VPS

The full is "leading". You're think of the week starting on a Monday. In the backup's "mind", the week starts on Friday or Saturday. Your weekly sets would be all the tapes from the full through the last incremental or differential before the next full. Don't think about "calendar weeks", think about "backup weeks".

It doesn't matter which day of the week you run the full on-- you'll still start a restore by bringing back the last full and then the last differential (or all incrementals) taken after that full.

Typically, Friday or Saturday is chosen to give the longest window of non-business hours time to take the full backup. If you have a better day of the week for the full, use it.

BTW: If you can get away with differential backups use them instead of incrementals. You have much less risk exposure.

Edit: An incremental backup contains only the changes since the last full OR incremental. A differential backup contains all the changes since the last full. Assuming you're piling a week's worth of incrementals or differentials on the same tape cartridge, they're functionally very close to equivalent.

If, however, you're using a different tape cartridge each day for the incremental, you have a dependence on each of those cartridges holding the incremental backups to work for a successful restore. With a differential backup scenario using a different cartridge each day, only the last full and differential cartridges are needed for a restore.

DeltaCopy is rsync implemented in a more windows-like manner. As I recall the DeltaCopy documentation contains an example of doing what you need. (unix->windows)