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Weekly Full and Daily Incremental Backup in the same backup file generated instead of new file for each

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Hi, we have created a backup plan for the schedule Weekly Full (Thursday Full) and Daily Incremental (Sat-Wed Incremental) considering Friday is weekend in Dubai, UAE.

When we did our first full backup a file was created under the backup destination location with the name 

04SagePhysical-F039A8B0-EBBF-4F78-98A7-155BF0720F50A.tibx (237.92 GB for full backup)

This file was subsequently taken to 2nd location on Tape. All succesfull.

 

But next day when incremental backup ran as per schedule, the same file was updated with larger size under the backup destination location as follows:

04SagePhysical-F039A8B0-EBBF-4F78-98A7-155BF0720F50A.tibx (238 GB)

This means the full backup file got updated and now includes incremental backup as well.

I had seen in one of the Acronis customers (during one of the reference visit arranged by the reseller when we bought Acronis 12.5 Advanced) that each incremental file is generated seperately, but its not in our case.

What we are doing wrong? Any particular setting I need to enable in the backup settings for that plan?

Any help is appreciated

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Hi! 

Acronis Backup 12.5 supports two archive formats:

Version 11 - a legacy format to be used in a new backup plan that appends backups to the ones created by earlier product versions. If you want full, incremental, and differential backups to be separate files, select this format in the backup-options.

Version 12 - a new format recommended in most cases for fast backup and recovery. Each backup chain (a full or differential backup, and all incremental backups that depend on it) is saved to a single .tibx file.

If you want to switch to another format, create a new backup-plan. After the backup plan is applied, this option cannot be modified.

For more details read https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/AcronisBackup_12.5/index.html#38763.html