How to set up reliable, nightly incremental backups?

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I've been using Acronis True Image Home for about 4 years, 2 on WinXP and 2 on Win7 64 bit and it's saved my bacon at least twice during this time. That said, I'm forever having problems with setting up a reliable, automatic, nightly backup using True Image Home 2010. In the past, I've discovered that failed backups are not notified unless I open the UI and check the log manually. This is close to unforgiveable since you can't expect folks using an automated system to open the tool every morning to check to see if it actually did what it was supposed to do.

Having discovered this, I now open the UI at least weekly and check the log. Until today, I assumed that if a date was marked with the green "successful" marker, all was well. On looking at my backup drive today, however, I noticed that no files had been modified in the last month. Checking the detailed event log for the supposedly successful backup, I see that it didn't actually take place. The backup runs automatically but allegedly the user cancelled a message box that was warning about lack of space on the backup drive. The backup drive has 555GB free and I'm doing an incremental backup of a 512GB disk. I've attached a screenshot showing the successful markers and failing log.

In the past, when this kind of thing has happened, the only solution I have found is to delete all the backups on the drive and create a new one from scratch. This involves losing all backup history, of course, so I'm not keen on this approach.

Could someone let me know exactly how to set up an overnight backup so that:

1. It works reliably every night and, if ANYTHING goes wrong, it tells me without me having to open the UI and scour the logs.
2. It removes the oldest backup on the drive to make space for new data thus allowing me to keep, for example, the last 30 days backups available (I thought I had the options set to allow this but apparently that's not the case). Basically, I'm looking for something as close to Apple's Time Machine as possible.

I'm fairly sure that the first response will be "you need to upgrade to 2012" but, frankly, I would need to be convinced that these rather serious usability problems have been fixed before shelling out more on the product.

Thanks,

Dave Wilson

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Thu, 02/16/2012 - 02:41
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User cancelled message just means ati ended without finishing--you can't take that message literally. It sounds like your target disk hasn't enough space for ati to complete its backup operation. ati doesn't remove any old backup until it has successfully created a new one. Think about it, if it didn't work this way, you could end up with no backups as the scehdule task, after deleting a backup, would try and fail to make a backup if it had any probs (corrupted task or whatever). You can't and shouldn't want to change this -- create first; destroy 2nd. This also means you need to leave space for one more full backup than you think or else the disk will be full during backup operation.If disk space is your problem, consider getting a bigger hdisk instad of another version of ati. Drives are about as cheap and would give you more potential benefits.

If it's not a disk space issue and you're considering change versions, I wouldn't recommend upgrading to ati2012 but "downgrading" to ati2009 or even ati11 (as opposed to ati2011). If you are running only 1 inc before consolidation, increase it to some higher number -- there was a bug I believe in that version so it treated 1 max inc as 0.

Thu, 02/16/2012 - 13:59
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