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Hi,

I've just upgraded from version 9 to 2012 and am disappointed to find that it is no longer to do incremental backups to DVDs, this is possible in version 9.

I have found this is the knowledge base that mentions a workaround to save the incremental backup to the hard drive then copy to DVD: http://kb.acronis.com/content/17580

But how do I go about this?
I've done my full backup to DVDs, so now how would I now go about doing the incremental to hard drive?

Have to say this is a step backwards, thought buying the upgrade would improve things.

Cheers,
Mike

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I'm not sure if you mean version 2009 or version 9 that pre-dates 2009 by two-three years. I'm suprised that this ever worked.
Anyway, The method I use to put a backup on dvd is this:
When creating a full backup, be sure to select the options to split the backup files to the size disk your are going to store the backups on. ie 4.3GB for DVD single layer. Then do your backup to a hard disk drive. After your backup completes, you can then burn each of the files to DVD's and have the backup set on DVD's. Be sure to validate the DVD backup set. In order to do incrementals, you would still need to backup to the same location on a hard drive, and then when you have enough incrementals to fill a DVD, burn them to a DVD also. Do not delete any of the incrementals (or the originals full) from the hard drive unless you are going to create a new task and start over. Be sure to keep good records of the files you write to DVD so that restore is easier. Backing up directly to CD/DVD is risky at best anyway. This method assures good writes to the DVD's outside of Acronis using whatever burning software you choose. I like ImgBurn for this task.

Hi James, thanks for your post.

I do mean version 9 not 2009, a quick search of my emails finds my order from 2006, and I've never had a problem backing up direct to DVD.

If the method you say is the only way to do this to DVD then this is not going to work for me, the full backup was about 32GB and spanned 4 dual layer DVDs.
My computer only has a 100GB hard drive with 6GB free, so no way I can create the initial full backup on the hard drive, let alone keep the full & incremental backups on it.