Offboard Backup Base File Getting Updated Daily
Currently, the offboarding backup behaviour appears to copy both the daily incremental AND the base file every day. This is evidenced by the base file's modified date updating daily even when it already exists in the offboarding share. We sync our offboard backup share to the cloud which results in a huge amount of unnecessary data transfer every day and multiple 'versions' of the base file in our cloud storage. Can the behaviour be changed to check for the existence of the latest base file in the offboarding share and only copy it over if it doesn't exist?
Linda L
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Steve
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The SMA should simply not transfer the base backup every day. Once it has been transferred to the offboard server successfully, it should not be sent again. The current behavior defeats the purpose of doing base and incremental backups (the purpose being to reduce backup storage size). The current implementation actually increases the overall storage required for proper backups.