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How to force a full backup now?

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ATI is configured to perform a full backup after six differential backups. What is the easiest way to force ATI to perform a full backup now? One possibility appears to be to change the Create a full backup after every N differential backups setting from 6 to 1. Will this work? Is there a better method? Thanks.

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William, this is something that has been asked for numerous times but as of now there is no really good way to do it consistently.

With incremental backups, it could be easy to manually run enough backups to get to the next full. Each backup would be very quick if almost nothing changes. With differentials, that would not be the case. Sometimes changing the configuration does not necessarily produce the desired result. If you changed it from 6 to 1, would you need to change it right back? Why 1? What if you have 5 differentials already?

You could provide feedback in hopes that another vote to implement this would be beneficial.