Need help for good scheme (urgent)

How often does he need to make backups? Daily? For backing up to swapped drives simplified naming is recommended (available in build# 12457 or higher). Full backup in simplified scheme will overwrite the existing full and dependent incrementals, so it looks he needs two plans (with the same archive name) - one with full backup to run manually after disk is swapped, and another with incremental type for the rest weekdays.
see more in http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ABR10/index.html#104…

Hello,

At the moment I made a simplified scheme, that is backupping incrementals daily.

I want the client basicly to swap the drive each 2 weeks, so I wonder if he will swap to a clean drive now will it also make a full backup automaticly again?

Greetz

When you connect a new clean drive,it will be ok, and it will indeed create a full. But when you return the first drive where old backups exist, you need to delete them manually before starting a task. Otherwise it will fill up with incrementals.

Yeah but thats kinda what I want, when I basicly return to the first disk again it will make the next incrementals again.

So than I have 2 disks with 1 full backup and incrementals.

Wich should be pretty safe no?

Then it's ok, but long chain of incrementals is not good (let's consider 30 as a reasonable limit) and when you need to delete the older ones you need to do it manually. So you will need to either 1) delete the whole chain or 2) consolidate backup, converting some incremental to a new full, which requires space, and you don't have place for two 250-GB backup on the usb disk.

Hey,

Well the way I see it now, I made backups now for a week with the Simple scheme. 1 full and the rest incrementals.

Now for week 2 I will use the new disk and do the same.

Every week I will repeat this process and if the one of the disks come full I can just delete the older incrementals so there is space again for new incrementals (can do this on both disks when needed).

I wish there was a way to make delete the incrementals automaticly. (now I set the retention rules to delete backups older than 30days). But I guess I shouldnt do this or it will delete the full backup to?

Im just trying to make it all automatic now I gonna have to delete the incrementals manually

I wonder if theres any better plan I can use rather than simple so I can make it all automatic (remember I have to backup 250GB on 500GB USB Disk, and make a swap of drive every week).

I could get 1TB USB disks to, aslong as theres a way to make everything automatic with a scheme... with disk swap also.

Maybi I should us Grandfather father son thingy or?

With simplified naming there is no automatic cleanup possible. GFS or TOH scheme can newer backup keeping older ones, but they are not supported (officially at least) for swapped drives.
Deleting incrementals manually in a simple scheme is not good too - meta file (.xml with the same name as archive name) will get inconsistent with actual bakups chain.

Thanks again for your time and effort.

What do you suggest than? I can get another acronis program or bigger disks if needed.

But basicly I want to automate it so I can be sure of the backups and let the client swap the disk every 2 weeks.

If he can create full backup each week as he swaps the disks - I can suggest the scheme I posted in the first reply. Otherwise he needs to clear the disk manually before backup when he needs to create the full.