TI2011: schedule full backup on specific day
Is it possible to have a schedule that creates a Full backup on a specific day of the week (e.g. Sunday) and then incremental backups for the rest of the days of the week?
The only way to do something like this that I could find is to create a custom schedule with a full backup every 6 incrementals but I cannot time it to start with the full backup on a specific day. Even if I delete all the existing backups the day when I want the full one to be created, it creates a full backup but then the new full backup happens sooner than the next 6 incrementals.
The reason I want to do this is because on that specific day when I do the full backup I want to schedule a disk defrag task before the full backup. A disk defrag will mess with the sectors and it will cause any incremental backups to be bigger than necessary because the sectors move around.
So I want something like this:
Sunday:
Disk Defrag
Full Backup
Mon - Sat:
Incremental Backup
Sunday:
Disk Defrag
Full Backup
...
I don't understand why the scheduler cannot be more flexible.
Any ideas? Any file I can edit by hand on the day I want the full backup to happen to reset the cycle?
Hi TKTI,
You use the Windows Task Scheduler to run your Acronis task.
Information there:
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/14935#comment-45074
Hi TKTI,
You use the Windows Task Scheduler to run your Acronis task.
Information there:
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/14935#comment-45074
I don't understand how this helps me tell Acronis to run a full backup on Sunday and an incremental the rest of the days. Using two backup tasks (one full that runs once a week on a specific day and another incremental that runs ever day) does not seem to work against the same .tib file and it can't do the automatic cleanup/expiration of backups older than N days.
TKTI,
You are right. I am missing something. Here you go.
You need to use the Windows Task Scheduler in conjunction with Chain2Gen. Chain2Gen is a way to move entire chains across chain storage folders. You can specify how many chain storage folders you want. ATI's task is to generate the chains. CHain2Gen then moves the chain to a storage folder, and ATI is left restarting a new chain, and so on so forth.
Thanks for your help, but this is crazy. I've been using Acronis for a few years now and the scheduling has always been very poor. I don't understand why Acronis cannot make it more flexible and let me pick which days of the week get a full backup and which days get incrementals/differentials, etc. It can't be that hard to implement, there's just lack of willingness to listen to customers.
Hello all,
Thank you for your posts and your help.
TKTI, I will do my best to help you with this.
We definitely listed to our Customers suggestions. I just submitted your feedback to the managers of our Development team, I appreciate the time taken to submit it.
You can always submit your feedback from this link and if you need additional help, please let me know.
Thank you.
Anthon, was this ever resolved after you submitted this to development back in 2009 to provide better control over scheduling?
I'm a consultant who suggests your product as the preferred backup solution for them to purchase. Most clients like the backup cycle to end on Sunday so Monday they can be swapped out the tapes.
The functionality of your software does not allow me to establish the backup cycle on Sunday per my customer unless I work on Sunday myself just to work around your applications functionality.
Let me know how I can handle this going forward.
Thanks
Rob,
No new scheduling features have been added to TrueImage Home.
There is no feature to make sure a FULL backup runs only on a specific day of the week other than using your own ingenuity.
You can use Windows Scheduler to initiate a backup on a specific day of the week. This link may help.
A. How to use Win7 scheduler to run TIH backup tasks
TrueImage does have a weekly scheduler but no guarantee which type backup will run on a specific day except your own timing of start sequence.
Thanks for update but that approach does not resolve the issue of setting up a new backup the performs full + 6 differencials weekly and define it to start on Sunday at 8PM if today is Friday. I should have outlined I"m using your True Image 2015 version.
When I setup the backup it wants to start the back the night I created the backup, and first full backup is Friday night not Sunday night.
No other way around this?
Rob
Sorry. The options mentioned in prior posts are the only one I know about.