Windows 10: Question about macrium's retention policy, im a bit shakey

Discus and support Question about macrium's retention policy, im a bit shakey in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Incredible how hard it is to find solid recommendations revolving around certain criteria online for macrium lol. Anyhow, here is what i have, and... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by klepp0906, Mar 29, 2020.

  1. klepp0906 Win User

    Question about macrium's retention policy, im a bit shakey


    Incredible how hard it is to find solid recommendations revolving around certain criteria online for macrium lol.

    Anyhow, here is what i have, and what im going for.

    I want grandfather-father-son and I want 3 months worth of full backups. 1 month worth of differential. 2 weeks worth of incremental.

    trying to keep the overlap/consolidation to a minimum as that seems to take some time.

    This was easily defined with setting the retention rules based on time, but i realized the caveat there. If your pc goes down for a length of time, or your not on it for a stretch due to life's curveballs or something, macrium pays no attention and will start offing your backup sets.

    So i want to change it to keep xx number of backups instead. Much safer.

    Again, 3 full backups is the easy one as theyre taken once a month. Its the differential and incremental I get shaky on.

    Differential are once a week, but obviously not the week you do full backups. So would I want to retain 3? or 4? (since some months have 5 weeks?

    Moreso, incrementals. Those are set for daily. Do i want two weeks worth to be set to 14 and macrium ignores the ones that fall on a differential day? Or would that give me two weeks and two days worth?

    aka do i want
    full 3
    differential 4
    incremental 14

    or do i want
    full 3
    differential 3
    incremental 12

    disappointed in how slow ive become in old age, this should not be so perplexing to me >.<

    :)
     
    klepp0906, Mar 29, 2020
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  2. Jerry8AB Win User

    Macrium Boot Question

    Macrium Boot Question

    I use Windows 10 and a Macrium recovery program. My BIOS is set where the optical disk for CDs and DVDs are not set to recognize a CD/DVD disc as the first priority to boot from.

    What are the steps I should take to make my Macrium Rescue Disk as being first to boot from?

    Thanks,

    Jerry
     
    Jerry8AB, Mar 29, 2020
    #2
  3. SCCM Local Policy - BITS

    Managing BITS policy for clients can be done several ways - just a few listed here:

    1. Group Policy template
    2. Local Policy template
    3. registry
    4. and more...

    SCCM client settings for BITS uses local policy to enforce the BITS agent settings.

    Consider the following scenario:

    SCCM client settings contains BITS settings for max throttle, start and stop times, etc...

    SCCM Client settings also have the "Limit the maximum network bandwidth for BITS backgrounds transfers" set to "NO" so, effectively no settings that are configured are actually being enforced.

    This is working fine. Here's the issue:

    If I fun the following command:

    GPResult /scope computer /h file.htm

    ... the output file will show that this local setting is "enabled" and appears it is enforced.

    The setting is not enforced but the reporting mechanism thinks it is. I'm considering this a bug. This burned a customer and cost them several hours of troubleshooting where this setting was coming from because they swore that SCCM was not setting it.
     
    nick.aquino, Mar 29, 2020
    #3
  4. topgundcp Win User

    Question about macrium's retention policy, im a bit shakey

    Restoring Windows 10 Image using Macrium Reflect


    In addition to the above. Here's my suggestion in step by step.
    I assume you have Macrium Installed in your current HD and already made a backup copy.
    1. Connect your new HD via USB port and boot up.
    2. Run Macrium, click on Restore tab then select the Backup Image that you made to restore
    3. click on "select a different target disk" then select your new HD as destination

      Question about macrium's retention policy, im a bit shakey [​IMG]
    4. Proceed to restore then Shutdown and disconnect the old HD and replace with the new HD
    5. Boot up with your new HD.
     
    topgundcp, Mar 29, 2020
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