New user backup plan
I'm a new TrueImage user, setting it up. I've got one scheme going to do an image backup of my system drive weekly, now I want to do selective file & folder backups from a couple networked computers to an external USB drive.
I would like to do a full backup of all my files & folders monthly and incremental backups daily. No problem -- I can define two schemes to do that. But I would also like to archive each whole month's backups. I THINK all that will require is to rename the folder which TrueImage is backing up into to "Archive_xxx".
In other words, say TrueImage does its regular full (monthly) & incremental (daily) backups into a folder named "Working". I would rename "Working" to "Archive_xxx" after the last incremental backup of the month, create an empty folder named "Working", and TrueImage would start the next month fresh at its next full backup. Then I would build up folders named "Archive_xxx".
Would this work? Is there an easier way to do this? Thanks for any help!


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Thanks, Steve. I'm not proposing to change the name of the folder ATI backs up to. ATI would always backup to the same folder ("Working"), but I would effectively empty the folder just before it did its monthly full backup. (I'd do that by renaming "Working" and creating a new empty "Working" just to avoid copying big files.) I think what you're suggesting in your last paragraph amounts to the same thing.
Would ATI be okay with its backup folder suddenly emptying just prior to a full backup? It seems like it would.
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Gerrit,
I think for file/folder backups your plan would work fine. File/folder level backups in TI 2020 still use the .tib format rather than the new .tibx format used for disk/partition level backups. Therefore the data tracking that the app uses with the .tibx format would not be in effect for a .tib format backup.
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Thanks for the help & suggestions, folks!
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