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I want to do a full backup once a week.  I want it to create a new file for each backup.  I don't want the previous over written.  Could someone please tell me the settings for this?  Thanks for your help.  I thought I knew what I was doing but I am not sure.

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Fred, welcome to these public User Forums.

You can use the available Backup schemes in the main ATI 2020 GUI to do what you ask providing that you understand and accept how this will work in practise!

I am assuming here that by a 'full backup' that you mean a Disks & Partitions backup of your main OS disk drive, which with ATI 2020 and later versions now uses .tibx files.  This is important as the rules changed with the introduction of .tibx files!

When you create a new Disk backup task, then click on Options for the task (after selecting the Source and Destination locations), you can then choose first select the Schedule for the task, i.e. to be run weekly on the day and at the time you want to use.

Next, on the Backup Scheme page, you can choose to create only Full backups if you wish or any of the other scheme choices.

The next decision on the Backup Scheme page is about automatic cleanup rules.  If you do not set such rules, then you will continue creating new backup .tibx files until you run out of disk space after which the backup will fail due to lack of available space on the destination location.

You say you don't want the backup file to be overwritten but eventually this will become necessary for the above reasons.  With automatic cleanup, you can decide how many backup files to create before the oldest file will be deleted to make space for further backups to be created.  The key point to understand about automatic cleanup is that you need to set a value that still allows for a further backup to be created.  This is because ATI only deletes file(s) after making a new one successfully, not before!

The easiest automatic cleanup scheme to understand is:

Store no more than X recent versions - where X needs to be at least 1 less than the maximum files that you could potentially store on your destination location, allowing for any increase in file sizes over time.

Example: If a full backup file is approximately 50GB (average) and you have a 1TB backup drive to store files on, then potentially upto 20 such files could be stored if nothing ever changed to cause files to grow larger, so X here could be set to say 15 to allow plenty of space for both growth of files and free space to allow deletions after new files are created, such that you would have a choice of 15 weeks of backups if needing to recover data.

Note: no files created as .tibx type should be deleted manually outside of the tools provided with ATI 2020 as all files are connected via metadata, and deleting any via Explorer will break the chain of files.

See: KB 63227: Acronis True Image: Do not delete .TIB or .TIBX files outside of Acronis True Image

KB 61844: Acronis True Image 2019, 2020 and 2021: How to delete old backups

Hope the above will be helpful to get you started here!