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Grandfather-Father-Son in Acronis Backup 12 - HOW to setup that it WORKS?

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I tried to create a Grandfather-Father-Son backup task in Acronis 12 but it doesn't seem to work correctly:

For source I'v chosen the whole volume (partitions mbr / c: / d: / e:), destination is a Synology NAS. I've chosen a customize backup scheme:

Full Backup: every first Saturday in month @ 02:00 a. m.

Diff-Backup: every Saturday @ 02:00 a. m.

Incremental-Backup: from Tue to Fri @ 02:00 a. m.

The retention policies I set:

Complete: 6 months

Differential: 5 weeks

Incremental: 5 days

The backup scheme is working. BUT: Every Saturday Acronis is doing a FULL backup (instead of DIFFERENTIAL) and needs 5-7 HOURS(!!!) for deleting backups by defined retention policies. CONSOLIDATING backups is NOT enabled.

What's wrong with this backup plan? In 11.7 it worked fine. I can't realize the GFS backup scheme with Acronis 12!
 

 

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Hi,

There are no such known issues recorded in our database, so the problem is likely specific to your particular environment and it should be investigated separately with help from our support team. First of all we'll check the logs and timing of the backups to see whether there was really full backup triggered, or whether it was in fact differential and the problem is in log differential task run/delayed consolidation.

Thank you.