mixed use of incremental and differential backups
Hi there,
I'm new to Acronis True Image 2013, want to set up some backup scenarios and I'm wondering, whether I could mix full-, differential- and incremental-backups (like I do with some other backup-SW for my servers)?
Background: I want to backup my data partition (330GB!) to my NAS. I don't rely on dozens of incremental backups but don't want to work just with differential either, so I'd like to se tup something like that:
- Fullbackup once a year
- differential backup every week or month
- incremental backup (to the last differential) every day or week
Is that possible somehow?
Thanks in advance, best regards,
Jochen
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Hi Pat,
thank you for your fast response!
So I think, I'll go with a full backup twice a year and differential backups once per week.
Best regards,
Jochen
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I think a more frequent full image is better than twice a year, if corruption happens due to disk failure, power failure etc, you could have orphaned differentials just when you need it.
I would recommend perhaps a full once a month with weekly differentials. I think a full image every three months would be the limit as far as limiting the effects of a corrupted archive.
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Hi Colin,
I agree. But fullbackups take a very long time and the majority of the data is static. So it's important to have it available somehwere (and I have 3 copies on different external harddrives) but the amount of data that changes, is not too big. So twice/year could be ok.
Best regards,
Jochen
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