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I want to do a full backup once and then every friday differential backup and monday-thursday incremental.

I would like also to maintain the full backup for every but maintain the latest 30 backups starting from a differential.

Is there any way to setup the retension rules to achieve the above or should I manually delete the oldest backup.

The consolidation is not an option since the backup is also transferred using a WAN line. When I tried to setup the plan using consolidation, was way too slow since I am using the aconis backup for pc (not the advanced version) and I can not use a centrallised vault.

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Hello Eugene,

In this scenario, there is no real way around periodically creating a full backup or using consolidation.

We are aware of this scenario, however. Future product versions will have improvements for this design. For example, the current beta for Acronis Backup 12 has an "always incremental" type of backup archive, where the data is always saved incrementally, but you always have a single .TIB backup file that contains all the recovery points.