Incremental backups always produce full backups...
I have upgraded from 2011 to 2012. WHen I now run my incremental backups, I always get a full one.
This has always worked since True Image 1.0 or 2.0, as long as I can remember.
I have so decided to create a new one backup from scratch with some files on my hard disk and ask for an incremental backup. Every time I run the backup, I get exactely the same archive file size, around 1,2 gb....
Joined is the xml backup file :
Not sure to understand what you mean but even if I ask TI to create a complete backup after 90 incremental ones, I always get a full backup everytime I run the backup.... Absolutely no way to get incremental backups after the complete one, only complete ones every time it runs....
It's a reall mess to upgrade to a new version of TI everyt time there is something wrong occuring !... Last time it was the smtp problem with authentication asked on non authenticated smtp servers....
I could advise you to delee all your taks, unistall and reinstall ati2012, recreate takss and see if it works. But it's probalby easier for you to jsut restore you cmputer back to when it had ati2011 on it.
Francis, From a practical standpoint, many users have found that whenever you upgrade to a newer version (2011 to 2012), you will get your best results if you stop using your 2011 tasks and begin to create new 2012 tasks. What Scott was saying is that some reports of issues when the user set the inc to 1 and retain 1 recent chain and suggested if this was your situation, set the number to 2 or more. My suggestion would be to create a new 2012 task and use the guide below either "as is" or except change the 6 inc to something other than 1 and change the 4 chains to something other than 1.
Franckly, this kind of suggestion is painful, to say the less :-) Every time we upgrade to a new version of TI and something that worked fine before doesn't anymore we are told to revert to the previous version :-) Why pay for a new release then ?.... Does Acronis refund the money back in such a case ? No.
Grover, I have set this custom scheme with 90 incremental versions instead of 6 in your screen capture and set TI to store no more than 10 recent version chains. That doesn't fix the problem.
Then I have uninstalled TI 2012. And reinstalled it again from scratch then (no more TI 2011 tasks then), and recreated from scratch my tasks (strangely enought, the uninstall process doesn't clear correctly everything as I retrieved my personal files category I created in the previous version....). I would say it is worst than before :-(
Not only that doesn't change anything (as I guessed though) in the incremental backup problem, but more over, it now puts in my backup list old backups I have already told him to remove from the list. And once I have removed them again from the list, they again appear in the list the next time I launch TI. A true nightmare.
I really wonder why I still continue to pay for each new release as every new release brings tons of new problems we didn't have with the previous version. Acronis definetly doesn't understand what "non-regression development" means (and I'have been a software developer for 25 years now), that's for sure. Pity.
Time to get back to TI 2011.
I think you are way off base here. Acronis still offers a satisfaction guaranteed. If you aren't satisfied within the first, I think it is 30 days) you can get a refund. You don't have to prove anything, you don't have to argue your case; you are entitled upon request.
Franckly, this kind of suggestion is painful, to say the less :-) Every time we upgrade to a new version of TI and something that worked fine before doesn't anymore we are told to revert to the previous version :-) Why pay for a new release then ?.... Does Acronis refund the money back in such a case ? No.
Acronis definetly doesn't understand what "non-regression development" means (and I'have been a software developer for 25 years now), that's for sure. Pity.
Time to get back to TI 2011.
I have been a professional software developer too since 1979 and I would also agree that 2012 was not a step forward for Acronis. I suspect that their product is not marketed or designed for people like me who are just interested in imaging their systems, without all the fancy stuff.
I always do a full backup since I just image my system drive. My data drive I manualy copy changed items to remote storage.
The marketing tack being taken is to keep adding features to attract new users, and get additional funds from existing users. It's a part of what's sometimes called the Detroit Model after what the American auto manufacturers did during the 50s and 60s.
Ok, then the TI 2011 release is definetly the release to go with, works like a charm, at least for incremental backup !...
BTW I wonder if Ford would refund you with a model T if the Model A didn't break fast enought ?..... :-)
This always remind me of the (supposed) debate between Bill gates and the director of General Motors (everyone forgot the name of the second, not the one, pity :-) (http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/gates2.htm)
I can imagine using one of the Detroit Big 3 in any discussion of quality-- the K car pretty much behaved the way teh joke lists suggests Windows did/does. Chrsyler spent more advertising the K car than on development of any improvemetns over previous models - in fact it was mostly off the shelf parts. lol
Anyhow, Ati2011 has many of the same problems of ati2012. There are sync and repeated auto-online-activation additions with ati2012 but, e.g. the problem of orphaned backup files was even worse with ati2011, there were major ssd issues--some folks seemed to hate ati2011 unti 2012 came along. One suspects that ati2012 will nejoy a much better receiption when ati2013 is released. ;)
Ok, then the TI 2011 release is definetly the release to go with, works like a charm, at least for incremental backup !...
BTW I wonder if Ford would refund you with a model T if the Model A didn't break fast enought ?..... :-)
This always remind me of the (supposed) debate between Bill gates and the director of General Motors (everyone forgot the name of the second, not the one, pity :-) (http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/gates2.htm)
--some folks seemed to hate ati2011 unti 2012 came along. One suspects that ati2012 will nejoy a much better receiption when ati2013 is released. ;)
Can't wait for the TI 2078 then :-)