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Hi,

I've just come over to Acronis from Symantec System Recovery 2013 (long time user and long story) and have been trying to set up a backup scheme that matches what I'd used previously. Pretty basic actually: I'd like to run twice weekly incrementals and then run full backups monthly, with a total of three months worth of backups maintained.

To do this I've created the twice weekly schedule and then selected a custom backup scheme: incremental with create full version after every 8 incremental versions (twice weekly times four is once monthly) and then, finally, store no more than 3 recent version chains (three months). Do I have this right?

At one point I needed to change this scheme because I noticed it wasn't doing what I thought I'd configured. Not sure if this is related to the question that follows: can someone explain the current list of backup files that are present in the destination location? Do these look correct for the above scheme?

30/11/2015  10:03 PM     3,437,033,664 NEWT (C and U drives)_full_b1_s1_v1.tib
07/12/2015  10:23 PM     8,561,092,096 NEWT (C and U drives)_inc_b1_s2_v1.tib
15/12/2015  06:45 AM   321,587,051,200 NEWT (C and U drives)_full_b1_s1_v1-2.tib

15/12/2015  06:47 AM                 0 NEWT (C and U drives)_full_b1_s1_v2.tib
15/12/2015  11:40 PM   603,587,871,232 NEWT (C and U drives)_full_b1_s1_v2-2.tib

18/12/2015  06:13 AM    <DIR>          .
19/12/2015  08:01 AM   925,530,156,544 NEWT (C and U drives)_full_b3_s1_v1.tib
              20 File(s) 2,863,838,101,985 bytes

Thanks!

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It doesn't seem from looking at your file names that your chosen incremental scheme isn't working as you want.

Each full backup version will have the suffix _full_b?_s?_v? where ? represents a number.

Each incremental version follows a similar pattern but with _inc_  and _diff_ for differential versions.

On my system using the differential system, I see the following:

Win10-Vista local_full_b1_s1_v1.tib
Win10-Vista local_diff_b1_s2_v1.tib
Win10-Vista local_diff_b1_s3_v1.tib

This will continue for the number of differential versions until a new consolidated backup is created which will have the pattern 
Win10-Vista local_full_b2_s1_v1.tib

I have different backups that I just run manually and these follow a similar pattern just using _full_

Hi Steve, thanks for your post.

There are several aspects of the file list I provided that are peculiar to me:

1. The most recent file has an "_v1" suffix, but there is no corresponding "_v2" suffix (like there is for earlier files). Perhaps this file now includes both the previous "_v1" and "_v2" contents? I had been thinking "_v1" was my C: drive and "_v2" was my U: drive (a SCSI mounted RAID array).

2. What are the "-2" suffixed files?

3. Why is one of the files zero size?

4. Why is there no "_b2" (seems like this was skipped?)?

As I'm still getting used to ATI I'm looking closely at the backed up files to ascertain whether I've set up the backup scheme correctly and to ensure proper backup integrity. I did the same with Symantec's product early on and eventually got to a point where I could understand what all the various files were and how often they were being updated/retained.

Thanks again. Perhaps I should post this question to Acronis support instead of the user forum? Anyone know if this is an appropriate question for direct support?