Guidance on how to set up an automatic Full / Differential backup
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 7:23 pm
Could someone please give me some advice on how to set up a schedule that would do the following:
Once a month, create a new full backup.
After creating the new full backup, produce a differential backup based on the new full backup every day, and stop making differential backups based on the previous full backup.
I have figured out how to schedule the full backup every month, and I see know how to manually schedule differential backups based on an existing full backup, but I am not sure how to go about setting it up so that it will automatically switch to the new full backup.
Once a month, create a new full backup.
After creating the new full backup, produce a differential backup based on the new full backup every day, and stop making differential backups based on the previous full backup.
I have figured out how to schedule the full backup every month, and I see know how to manually schedule differential backups based on an existing full backup, but I am not sure how to go about setting it up so that it will automatically switch to the new full backup.