Quick and easy way to consolidate my backup?
Hey guys,
I'm using True Image 2011 and I have 197GB of data that I backed up on my 1TB external hard drive. The backup type that I choose was Differential and it made 1 full backup and after it performs 3 backup increments (or differentials) it is supposed to consolidate into 1.
It is consolidating after the 3rd increment and it appears that it is creating a whole new full backup plus the increments!!!??!! That seems awfully long and cumbersome. What I was hoping for it to do, was to simply merge the increments in with my already existing full backup.
Is doing it this way possible? Did I choose the wrong backup plan?
Thanks in advance
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The consolidation process requires a lot of space and is lenghty: a copy of the backups to be consolidated is created and is worked on. If the process succeeds, the original backup chain is deleted and the resulting consolidated copies are renamed in place.
I'd recommend you do a custom scheme, differential or incremental where you do a full backup after X partials. X should not be too big a number, so that your last validated full backup is never too old for you to go back to if you *had* to. Turn on auto-cleaning and choose the "store no more than Y most recent chains".
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Lengthy is an understatement.. it told me that it was going to take 9 days to consolidate a 250GB file and it's 3 1GB incrementals. I don't know why they don't have a program that runs on the remote system for those of us that backup over the network.. other than the fact that Acronic seems to have taken a step away from network backups. 2012 couldn't attach to my share by name.. I had to use a local IP address. Definately a downgrade from ver 11.
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