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Are these settings good enough?

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One question I have is: if I run this backup for the first time, is the first backup full backup, and the following 4 are incremental? And then after that, a new Full backup is created and so on? Or is the first backup a partial?

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Backup 1 - 5 will be created. Backup 1 will be a full and backup 2, 3, 4, 5 will be incrementals. (1 recent version chain)

Backup 6 -10 will be created. Backup 6 will be a full and backups 7, 8, 9, 10 will be incrementals. (1 recent version chain)

Backup 11-15 will be created. Backup 11 will be a full and backups 12, 13, 14, 15, will be incrementals. (1 recent version chain)

Backup 16-20 will be created. BAckup 16 will be a full and backups 17, 18, 19, 20, will be incrementals. 1 recent version chain.

Backup 21 will be created. The automatic cleanup (keep 4 recent version chains) will be enabled and backup 1-5 will be deleted.

Backup 22-25 incrementals will be created. (1 recent ve rsion chain)
Backup 26 full will be cr eated. Backups 6-10 will be deleted
and the cycle continues with keeping 4 full chains all the time

A similar example of a 6 and 4 setup.

Wow. That's brilliant explanation. Thanks.

One off-topic question: I have created a media disk on a USB drive, and I'm taking backups on an external hard drive. This is all I need even for the worst case right? I think this si right, but just want to make sure.

Also, how should I go about testing my backups? I see that you have suggested that many times, but I'm not sure how I would test the backups.

Boot your computer on the USB recovery drive that you built. Verify that you can restore a couple of files (do not restore an entire partition by mistake!).