Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/11/2016)
Always, always, always keep two fulls and the logs from the earliest one forward.You never know when you will lose a file or have disk corruption on that file.
Amen. I've had this happen to me. The disk went haywire and I lost a bunch of files. It's a good thing I was checking my backups or I never would have found the drive problem. I think I was luck to have found it. I had 5 days of full and log backups and was happy that I did. The SAN guys disconnected the LUN, moved what was recoverable and gave me a new one. Thankfully, I didn't need the backups, but I was happy to have them.