How to schedule incremental backups to run every other day or 3 times a week
Acronis True Image 2014 (English) Windows 7, 64 bit
Is there any way to set incremental backups to run every other day on the Daily schedule? Or 3 times a week on the Daily schedule?
Thank you,
Toby Lee
Is this what you're looking for? When creating the task, click on SCHEDULE, then click on the individual days to run the backup.
No David. That's not what I want.
Click on Schedule your operation -> Click on Daily. Daily start At 3:24. Click on Add, that adds to that SAME day. I want to schedule Monday, Wednesday and Friday to run Incremental backups.
If you click on Weekly, that schedules once a week on whatever days you select. Meaning it will backup on Monday one week, Wednesday the second week, Friday the third week. __I want to schedule an incremental backup to run Monday, Wed and Fri of the SAME week.__ Thanks!
I'm fairly new to Acronis so I mat be missing something but I found this in the HELP section which seems to indicate that you can select WEEKLY and then select various days of the week for backups. If I'm reading it right, it should backup every other day if you so choose.
Thanks David. The way I'm interpreting it is if you select Weekly, it will run on Monday the first week, Wed the second week and Fri the third week. If you look at the image of the calendar on the interface it has a green icon for once a week on Weekly. I am using Build 6673. It's confusing to me, as the interface suggests to me it is only once a week. Here is my screenshot, as it looks different than your first one.
I think what is confusing is the green icons highlighted on the Weekly image as showing in a vertical line: one week, second week, third week, etc. If there were green icons on several days in the SAME week horizontally, that would indicate the backup will run on the days selected in the same week.
I'm guessing the vertical green icons that are highlighted on the WEEKLY image are simply a default image. I just opened the GUI and selected the weekly task. Even though I picked Sunday (which is today and highlighted in the horizontal view), the vertical image still shows only Wednesdays.
It may show this as some folks would only do a backup once-a-week and that is what the image shows (only once a week). The HELP section would indicate you can choose the weekly schedule and pick every other day (or any other combination).
Again, I'm a noobie and just speculating with all this. Maybe the experts will chime in and provide the answer.
Give it a try and see what happens.
Thanks David. I appreciate you taking the time to post! I guess the only way to tell for sure is to select Mon, Wed and Fri on the WEEKLY schedule and see what happens. I will report back next week. Thank again! :)
Davis/s attachment in link #2 is correct. Go to the Weekly schedule and whatever days is selected by the user (days will be bolded or highlighted) will be the days the backup task runs.
The first backup will be a full and then continue with subsequent incrementals.
Note: "continue with subsequent incrementals is not a good idea if the continue has no specific end.
Much better to use something like this example which has some specific rotations and specific fulls that will be run. The forum postings are full of people who have been "unable to restore their most recent backups when the number of incrementals gets to be too many and one recent backup becomes un-readable.
GH12. Create Custom Incremental Backup Scheme. 6 Inc, Keep 4 chains.
GH25. Understanding differences between Inc and Dif for Safety
If you wanted only the inc type backups to be run (scheduled) on weekdays, you will need to plan on full being done manually if you do not want the full to be run via the schedule.
You should consider running a full backup at the very least to be monthly.
Thank you Forum Hero Grover. Yes I plan to run full backcups monthly. I thank you!
Grover, I don't see a GUI for Disk Backup Options with the suggestions in your first link GH12. Create Custom Incremental Backup Scheme. 6 Inc, Keep 4 chains.
Review signature link #2 and it will be illustrated when you reach illustration 11-Inc.
Thank you! What is the "Inc" in 11-Inc?
Inc-incremental as opposed to 11-Dif which is differentials, as opposed to 11-Full which if full only every backup.
if you wish your full backup to be monthly plus you plan on having incrementals also performed, then you will need to set up your custom task to be "full after 12 incremental".
The full will vary each month as to which scheduled day it occurs so your full will be every 4 weeks rather than monthly as the full will occur after the completion of each 13 backup chain. 1, 14, 27, 40 (each 13 backups)
Another option is also to use the monthly schedule and whatever days you select, the task will run with the first run being a full on the next scheduled day that you start the new task. If you select
full after 14 inc , that will consume 30 days but the new full will be on run backup #16 (full +14 inc)--whenever that occurs.
If you want the full to occur specifically on the 1st, that is not possible with TI when using inc or diff types as well. The only way you can get the full on the 1st would be to consider using the TI helper program Chain2Gen (C2G) and have it control the number of backups.
OK, I'll report back after I digest everything you posted. Thank you so much!