Incremental backups are not possible because of frequent backfilling
Occasional back filling of data would cause 5 TB of archives to be backed up with incremental backups. This is frustrating because only a few KB of data is changed in each archive. Can OSIsoft provide a way to backup only the data that has changed or support a 3rd party backup solution that would backup only the differences?
Gerhard Matzen
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Matt Voll
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you give people the power to make analyses in AF along with the capability of backfilling . . . of course they are going to be in there backfilling years worth of data every time they make a new analysis. Anytime anyone asks for a new piece of data (calculation or not) . . . they will always want the history of that data point . . . so on AF analyses that requires backfilling.
. . . and next day/week/month they will realize some additional item to put in their analysis and make the edit and backfill for all those years all over again again
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Kenneth Barber
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Why is there frequent backfilling?