Best Configuration for the most "efficient" backup
After a long learning curve, Acronis is working the way I want it to. Nightly incremental backups, keeping one full backup stored and validated, deleting the old one every 7 days. Many thanks to the folks on this forum for freely sharing their knowledge. My question is, when I use utilities that clean up Windows, like registry cleaners, spyware cleaners, virus scans, and temporary file deletions, does Acronis backup all these changes as well? I know that one of the main reasons for backup is the ability to recover mistakenly deleted files. But is there a configuration that will ignore files like deleted temp files for instance? Seems a waste of processor time and disk space to backup something that will never require restoration. Thanks.
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Kenneth Lyon wrote:After a long learning curve, Acronis is working the way I want it to. Nightly incremental backups, keeping one full backup stored and validated, deleting the old one every 7 days. Many thanks to the folks on this forum for freely sharing their knowledge.
Hey Kenneth, may I asked what settings you used to achieve this...
I have over 1TB to backup once a week, I would like to only keep one full backup up and incremental versions less than 4 weeks old. Is it necessary to schedule a new full backup after a certain amount of time? (for what reason(s)?)
Also how often should I validate?
Thanks in advanced.
PS I have Acronis 2013 and about 1TB free on my backup destination drive
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RaWW,
To set up your backup scheme, look at figure 11-Inc in this link. Adjust the 6 and 4 examples to fit your needs. This example will show you how to set up a retention schedule.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705
In addition to your regular backups, as a safety valve, I also suggest that use the TI Recovery CD and create a full backup (all partitions & validated) and store it away for safe keeping, Don't let it get too out of date before you replace it or update it. This should be stored on a drive different than your regular backups. If you should lose your 1TB disk, you want to have some valid backups stored elsewhere.
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GroverH wrote:In addition to your regular backups, as a safety valve, I also suggest that use the TI Recovery CD and create a full backup (all partitions & validated) and store it away for safe keeping, Don't let it get too out of date before you replace it or update it. This should be stored on a drive different than your regular backups. If you should lose your 1TB disk, you want to have some valid backups stored elsewhere.
This is good advice. Suspender and belt are a good thing where backups are concerned.
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