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Manually adding a full backup to a scheduled incremental version

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I have scheduled an incremental backup of selected files to be done once a day at shut down. Initially, I scheduled a full backup to be done every 30 versions, but because my computer sometimes freezes up and has to be restarted, it became inconvenient to have the long backup done in the middle of a work day. Therefore, I edited the backup scheme to do incremental only. My question: Can I MANUALLY add a full backup every 40 days or so? If so, how?

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No you can't trigger a full backup manually from ATI. You have to trick it: the day you want a full backup, move all the existing backups to another directory on the same disk. ATI will see there is no backup in its target directory and will create a new full one.

I discourage you from doing incremental backups only, this is very dangerous. If only one backup file gets compromised, all the incrementals after that backup are useless. IMO, 30 incremental backups is too many. I would not exceed 10-14.

A good way to assess how many you should have is the following criteria: if you really had to, could you use the last full that you have? Or would it be way too old?