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Setting up a Backup Schedule

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I have Acronis True I mage 10 Home, build 4942. I have a one TB external hard drive and want to use that to store backups of my computer hard drive disc. In that external hard drive I have created a folder in which to store the backups. I want to weekly create a full backup followed then by three incremental backups then a repeat of that process. As I understand it, through the schedule task wizard you should be able to click on full backup and then 3 incremental ones. However, I can't see how you do that as there are three selections you make...either a full backup, an incremental or a differential. So, how do you get it to schedule a full B/U followed by a series of incremental and so on?

Thanks...Paul.

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Version 10 was the only one I skipped on, so this help maybe suspect! :)

If you choose Incremental, it will automatically make a Full, then subsequent images will be Incremental.

To make this into a repeating imaging cycle, you will need to either, invoke consolidations after 3 incrementals or make your schedule a weekly task, with the appropriate days ticked.

Tell it you want incs. It will make a full if there are no incs already in the set. Same thing for Diffs. Tellit you want automtic consolidation and specify the number of incs before it tries to consolidate and backup set and make a new full.