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Moving from full backups to incramentals

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I'm moving to the Surface pro 128. At the moment I'm creating a full backup with a rotation of 7 days. It's presently taking 165GB of storage (about 27GB per day x 7) for a full seven days of full backups.

With the Surface Pro I'll only have a SanDisk Ultra 64 GB MicroSDXC Class 10 UHS-1 Memory Card to store my backups.

I've never attempted incremental backups before.

Are they as reliable as full backups. Not a whole lot changes on my system from day to day. I have been using Acronis for the last couple of years and every time I need to restore I have been successful using the full backup method.

Is there a guide on how to setup incremental on a rotation of seven days?

TIA...

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Using only the 64gb memory card, this presents a problem.

TrueImage always make a replacement backup before deleting the original. Based on your 27GB backup file size, This would seem to limit you to only one full backup with no room for incrementals. If you tried full plus inc, when it came time to do the next full, it would error out due to space limitations.

You could perhaps get around this by choosing a full plus 6 incrementals and then prior to the next full, delete the existing backups so the destination folder gets emptied before the next full backup begins. The delete could be cone manually via the program; or manually via Explorer; or automated delete using Chain2Gen(C2G). The function C2G would supply is that it would delete the backups prior to the creation of the next full. TI would see the target folder empty and create a new full replacement.

It is important to remember that having your backups covers such a short retention time does not really provide much security. More often than not, a problem with a file or virus is not immediately discovered until long after its occurrence so it is important to keep backups over a long span of coverage. You really need to consider a sata external storage disk with more storage room and with some dual backup coverage.

Here is a recent link in more detail regarding using C2G for the same purpose but you will need to read the entire thread.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/39292

I think this is a problem with limited space, and I should probably wait until I can pickup a 128 GB MicroSDXC card.

I'll use the network backup until then.

Thanks...

Yes, having a larger storage capacity would be helpful. I would encourage you to also keep current your alternate backups.

Very recently, one user posted where a virus make his computer not usable but also did he same for all his backups which were located on another internal disk. All his backups were ruined. You never know. It is wise to have other backups than those attached to your computer.

It gets to a point of being paranoid about backups. I already mirror. In all reality, it takes me about a day to restore back from a fresh install.

Switching to the Surface Pro is making be evaluate the whole data storage nightmare of keeping my personal data safe. I want to utilize the cloud (skydrive) in some way. I've always kept my personal data on the local system, and created images for my backup.

I do believe the cloud is going to be relevant more and more in the future, so it's just how to protect my personal data from corruption, and making it available when not connected.

Yes, Everything has to be within reason. I have not used the Cloud. I am not sure I want someone to have that access. Even with encryption and I have nothing to hide, they have access to whatever we put in the cloud and so far, I am not willing to put my data there. I may be one that is paranoid.