Best settings for large drive backups?
I need my 9TB Raid drive to be backed up to a 12TB RAID drive twice a day.
Attached is a screenshot of the current setup which is not working since the backup gets full too frequently.
What are the settings I need to make sure Acronis deletes old backups so that the backup drive doesn't get full?
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The 9TB drive is used for editing videos. Most of which is 4K RAW files.
The drive uses about 8TB of data all the time.
Is it not possible to use Acronis to keep this data backed up unless I have a location that is twice the size of my 9TB drive?
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While you won't be able to use the main backup capabilities of ATIH 2016 for your video data, you could consider using the Synchronisation feature instead but this will require that you have an Acronis Cloud subscription.
Please see the ATIH 2016 User Guide: Synchronizing data which will provide more details of this aspect of the application. My understanding of Sync is that you must create a 'Default sync' to the Acronis Cloud, but can be of a small folder that doesn't change very much, then create a second sync for a local sync location, as I suspect that you wouldn't necessarily want to sync the whole 8TB of videos to the Cloud.
Alternatively, there are a number of synchronisation programs available that you can use. The key caveat with using synchronisation is to be careful if doing this automatically especially if mirroring changes from source to target - if you accidently delete files on the source or they are encrypted by malware etc... !
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I have a similar situation. I am backing up files to a desktop 3TB drive. My back up file size is 1.4TB.
The process fails (out of space) when I try adding a second full backup (.I ordered a 4TB HD which should solve the problem).
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How best should I set up the backup scheme. I am not concerned about earlier versions since I need
only the last one that mirrors the most recent configuration.
I only backup after there has been changes.(2 times a week).
My scheme is - Incremental - Create full version after 8 incremental versions - Store no more than 8 recent versions.
Question - Does the new 2nd full backup take as much time as making the first one?
Thanks Gene
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Gene, welcome to these User Forums.
If you are configuring to "Store no more than 8 recent version chains" and your full backup size is 1.4TB plus the size of 8 incremental backup files, then you would need a backup drive of around 14TB.
A version chain = 1 x Full plus 8 x Incremental files, so 1.4TB plus the size of 8 incremental files.
Automatic cleanup does not run until a new Full backup is successfully created to take the count of recent version chains up to 9 (in your example), at which point the oldest version chain would be deleted. So in reality you need to be able to hold 8 + 1 Full backups at a minimum.
For a 3TB backup drive, you should configure to "Store no more than 1 recent version chains" and hope that your 3TB can actually hold 2 x 1.4TB files plus 8 x Incremental files.
The time to create any Full backup file will always be much longer than that to create incremental files.
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