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I set up my NAS to be backed up incrementally to a device that is only 4TB and should suffice in size for a few years.  I choose to only have one full backup and do incrementals there after.  I only do one backup a month and i'm the only user involved.  Are there other things to take into consideration?  I suppose if my destination device was twice as large, I could have two full backups and the oldest falls off so that there is never three.  I'm just trying to find out what is the advanage of doing so.  I would think it would be less cluttered over time and the restore process would be quicker.

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Long backup chains increase the risk of something going wrong. If one of the incremental backups becomes corrupted, it renders all subsequent backups useless, and may render the entire backup useless. It is a high risk strategy. The degree of risk may be less with backups using *.tibx architecture (disk + partitions) compared to *,tib architecture (files + folders) backups.

I have in the past has a backup task that produced a very long chain - 150+ incremental backups, using ATI 2014. But that was just luck; it was supplemented by regular full backups.

So, I suggest you seriously reconsider your backup strategy.

Ian