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Some questions about backup management with backup plans

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Is there any way to do some of the following

Do a full backup say every 1 month with incremental ones in between (using a single backup plan)

Delete backups older than have multiple options
delete only every second/third etc backup older than x time - have multiple iterations of this - with each date being further out - this would allow keeping more later backups than earlier ones - This can be done with multiple backup plans - but it would be cleaner in one

? Not sure what happens to an incremental backup if the base backup is older than the specified date and is erased - unless this explicitly does not happen

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Hello Robert Salasidis,

Thank you for posting this question in our forum. I am happy to assist you. 

You can specify various szenarious in one custom backup plan. Using different backups means, you are able to delete slices between two full backups. Incremental backups means, the complete chain will be deleted when they exeeds the time limitation. See more information in our user guide or in this article of our knowledge base.

If there is anything else we can do for you, please let me know.

Thank you.

*keeping more later backups than earlier ones*
The Tower of Hanoi backup scheme is designed exactly for this purpose. It also includes differential backups which help to cut off the incremental "branches" in a timely manner.
See http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ABR11.5/index.html#770.html
One more description: http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ABR10/index.html#1432.html