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I’m loving the extra features of the calculators, especially the VSE. My issue is that they all seem to be targeted towards “Days” for the daily jobs with no option for “Restore Points”. Equally important, especially for multiple jobs run within a day.

 

Does anyone have a method to “hack” this at the moment? I did try this, but it seemed higher than expected:

 

2-Hourly job, held for 31 days:

12 (hourlies) X 31 (days) = 372 restore points.

 

When I apply logic to that though, it’s really just saying “hold a daily restore point for 372 days”.

 

Keen to see if there’s another way to calculate these types of scenarios, while using GFS.

Hey ​@DaveR_NZ , I think this is in anticipation of the future version v13 where it will no longer be possible to choose the restore point option.
 

 

Hi ​@DaveR_NZ … If you’re looking to “hack” the app to do this, just adjust your change rate or change your retention. Both are factors to the same result…

Let’s say your daily change rate is 12%, well, your bi-hourly (2h) change rate will be at least 1/12th of that (likely some amount more for overwrites, etc, but for simplicity of this example...)… thus ~1%.

  • So… 10TB @ 1% for 372 points (“dailies” in the field) =

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  • vs. 10TB @ 12% for 31 days =

These results will approximate to the same result, with a minor variance due to the calculator assuming a few extra points in the chain (if we used 28 days in the example, the numbers would be about 0.6TB apart.

 

Conversely, you could do the opposite to get to daily values. You could take your hourly/bi-hourly change rate and factor it out to a daily change rate and use 31 days instead.

 

 

Have a look at the replica calculator, as it functions in a similar fashion (note it asks for change per cycle, not per day; with RPO being your cycle). Though, it can’t be used for your example as it is limited to 28 points.

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