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Can I use a old Full Backup and do incremental backup now?

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I am using Acronis true image 11

I have created an full backup on 01 March 2014 and then scheduled incremental backup daily from 02 March 2014. Now (31 Aug 2014) my backup hard disk is full (the disk that store all the backup), so I take out the backup hard disk that is already full and relpace it with another empty disk (the disk that store the backup).

When I start with an empty disk (the disk that store the backup), usually I will create a new full backup and then scheduled incremental backup daily.

But I do not have time to do the full backup these days because full backup takes many hours.

Can I use the full image backup (created on 01 March 2014) and then scheduled incremental backup daily. (example: full image backup (01 March 2014), first scheduled incremental backup daily on 01 Sep 2014, second scheduled incremental backup daily on 02 Sep 2014, third scheduled incremental backup daily on 03 Sep 2014...)

Thanks a lot.

(using Acronis true image 11)

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Yes, you should be able to copy your full backup (01 March 2014) to your new empty backup drive, and then start your scheduled Acronis True Image 11 task to do your daily incremental backups based on that old full backup. The main caveats in doing this are that the first incremental backup will take a longer time because of the number of changes that have occurred since the full backup was created, thus it will also be larger in size.

Perhaps you should reconsider creating a new full backup on the new disk drive - but schedule this to happen overnight or when the system is least used.