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Backup Plan Not Respecting Version 11 Setting

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After some initial testing, I cleared out all of our backup tasks and created 4 new standard VM backup plans.

One of the things I cam across in my initial testing was the fact that using version 11 for the actual backup files is necessary if you want to maintain your backups in separate files.  This is necessary for us because we periodically upload every single backup file to Google Drive.  Although our storage is unlimited, Google Drive imposes a 750 GB per day file transfer limit and there's no integration between Google Drive and Acronis.

If we were to use a single backup file, it would quickly grow to multiple TB in size and we would have to upload the entire thing in one shot.  Google Drive will let you do this (the 750 GB limit doesn't trigger in the middle of a file transfer, as far as we've seen), but it would take forever to upload our new backup sets every time we do it.

So, we're using version 11 for the actual backup files.

Am I correct in assuming that a file ending in .TIB is a version 11 (or older) file, and a file ending in .TIBX is a version 12 (or later) file?

I've noticed that this setting seems to be respected for our ESXi Configuration backups.  We get a new .TIB file every time, and we get a single XML file alongside it that is updated every time the job is run.

For our VM backups, one thing I noticed is that when I create a task, the setting reverts itself to "Automatic", and I can't change it.  So one of the last things I do before clicking the button to create the task is make sure that the version is set to 11.

However, this doesn't seem to work.  Every backup task I've created still creates and updates a single .TIBX file, and looking in the settings shows that it's set to "Automatic".

Any ideas?

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I think I've figured this out, somewhat.

Here's my procedure for creating a new backup plan:

SET VERSION 11
SET File Name (why isn't there an option for this in the default backup settings?)
SET Error Handling 5 attempts / 2 minute interval (why isn't there an option for this in the default backup settings?)

Set Backup Plan Name
Add Device
Add location 1
Retention period
 Single rule, 3 months (why isn't there an option for this in the default backup settings?)
Add location 2
 Verify retention period matches
Set schedule (why isn't there an option for this in the default backup settings?)
 Custom
 Full, Monthly, 1st day of month, time, If the machine is turned off, run missed tasks at the machine startup
 Incremental, Monthly, All EXCEPT 1st day of month, time
Application aware backup (for AD servers only - NOT SQL since quiesced snapshots fail and will cause the backup to fail)
Set encryption

SET VERSION 11

 

By setting version 11 as the very last step, I've noticed that it gets reset to Automatic at some point in the list of steps I perform.
When I set up s a few more backup plans, I'll try to narrow down what causes it.

 

 

It looks like this setting gets reverted to "Automatic" if you set it before giving the backup plan a name.  It may also get reverted if you set it and then turn application aware backup features on or set encryption on.

Setting version 11 is now the last step before I hit the create button.  It seems to be respected that way.