I am trying to save a little space on our backup drives. I am wondering if my backup plan will work or if I am misunderstanding what differentials do.
My Plan: I want to do a full backup on Sunday, take a differential once a day, and do transaction log backups every 15 minutes for 25 hours.
I did some googling and I am getting mixed answers on how this all works.
I have 2 questions
- Can I only keep a days worth of transaction logs since I am doing differentials or do I need to keep the entire weeks worth?
- Should I be doing transaction log backups while the full and differential backups are running?
Thanks