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Created by Guest
Created on Aug 20, 2022

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?
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  • Guest
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    Feb 20, 2024

    This issue could be alleviated with the creation of different archives sets https://pisystem.feedback.aveva.com/ideas/PIDA-I-1183 (related). This would allow users to have an archive set for process data that would never need to have any backfills and another archive set for analytics.

  • Guest
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    Aug 20, 2022
    Why is there frequent backfilling?
  • Matt Voll
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    Aug 20, 2022
    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