Grandfather-Father-Son backup (GFS) is an effective rotation scheme that allows managing the copies in the long-term perspective while requiring minimal space in data storage.
GFS is a multi-level scheme, which connects multiple backup types (full, differential, and incremental) cycles and rotates them in different time intervals:
An administrator separately decides how long to store full, differential and incremental copies, however, this scheme requires all three types of backup in one chain.
The biggest advantage of Grandfather-Father-Son backup is that you can store data for a long period of time while keeping a small number of versions. Same it ensures you with a fast data recovery - in the event of failure GitProtect.io needs to put together a maximum of only seven versions.
Read more: What are the backup schedule settings? How often can I perform backups?