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Why is Acronis creating only incremental backups

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I have Acronis True Image running on two Macs, an iMac and a MacBook.  Both use a NAS on my local network (a WD MyCloud NAS).  On the iMac, scheduled backups run every night with full backups every 6 or 7 days.  Absolutely no problems.

On my MacBook, I only ever see incremental backups.  A couple of weeks ago, the MacBook backups were failing every night.  I finally deleted and re-created the backup job (which deleted the backup file, which I think was somehow corrupted anyway).  For the last 10 nights, an incremental backup is created every time.  No full backups.  The MacBook backup file is about twice a large as the iMac backup (268 GB).

So my question: Why is Acronis creating incremental backups and never a full backup?  This seems to be a risk, where all my backups for a long period of time are dependent on a single backup file.

The iMac is connected via wired Ethernet to the NAS.  The MacBook uses my wireless, if that makes any difference.

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The Ethernet/WiFi should not be a factor causing this. I have two Windows 10 Pro notebooks which backup over WiFi without issue.

I cannot recall a similar issue being reported with the Windows version of ATI. May I suggest that you repost in the (hard to find) Acronis True Image for Mac Forum.

Ian

John, this is a scheme of backups on Mac - one full, all the rest are incremental backups. 

The new full backup will be created only as a first backup in the new plan.

I have added your vote to the change request about it (internal ID TI-176465).

Renata Gubaydullina wrote:

John, this is a scheme of backups on Mac - one full, all the rest are incremental backups. 

The new full backup will be created only as a first backup in the new plan.

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But why is my iMac creating incremental backups?  It's the same OS, same backup destination (different folder).

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Hi John,

I've replied to your topic here https://forum.acronis.com/comment/540774#comment-540774