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Manual launch of backups

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I moved from TI 2011 to TI 2017.

I made a full backup of several partitions. Now I have a project with several critical steps. I want to do a backup with TI after every step on the same destination location. So I need manual control to make incremental backups. How do I do that? If I select the base full backup and click "Add backup" I get a full backup, although the backup scheme is set to incremental. I supposed it would Add incrementally to the selected backup.

In TI 2011 one had a direct control. With TI 2017 things seem to be hidden behind automatic backup chains, which I don't use.

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Yes, you would need to create a backup task using the incremental version chain in 2015-2017.  You can then use the "backup up" now option in the lower right corner to manually run the backup as needed, but you'll want to make sure you have enough backups in your chain to support what you want to do if you don't want a new full to kick off.  You probably also want to ensure you have at least 2 backup chains in place so that if a manual does run, that does not result in an automated cleanup of the first chain.  There is a an option to "not delete the first version of the backup" in the backup scheme tab as well.

The alternative is to use the offline recovery media.  You can take offline backups (requiring you to reboot and boot the recovery media though) and then take an incremental from there.  

I don't know of any other way of doing this since the GUI change that occured in 2015.

 

Straetch,

Welcome to these user forums.

Bobbo is correct...you will need to create a backup task. The pictures below show the task settings I would recommend:

Once you have selected your source and target, Hit the "Options" Button...picture 1.

Under the Schedule tab, select "Do Not Schedule"...picture 2.

Under the Backup Scheme tab, select "Incremental" as the Backup Method, then select "Create Only Incremental Versions after the Initial Full Version"...picture 3

Then you can review the remaining tabs for additional settings.

Hitting the OK button takes you back to the main screen with a green "Backup Now" button in the lower right corner...picture 4

The first time you hit the "Backup Now" button, a full backup will be created.  Each subsequent time you hit the "Backup Now" button, an incremental file will be created.

Hope this helps,

FtrPilot

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