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The backup job I set up a simple backup to remove backups older than 3 days.
After I have placed advance orders shutdown
Shutdown command is carried out but before clearing user settings and reduce the number of incremental backups, no - task fails.

How do I solve this?

To start the backup you can use the command:
trueimagecmd.exe /create /partition:C /filename:\\Server\Test.tib /net_user:XXXX /net_password:XXXX /incremental

Can this kind of command prompt to set the number of incremental backups.

Thank you for your advice

Viktor Marek
Czech Republic

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Hello Viktor,

Thank you for your post and welcome to our forum. I will do my best to assist you.

Unfortunately, our software was designed in such a way, that if you schedule an automatic system shutdown, the clean up task will not work. I can recommend the following workaround.

Instead of setting up the clean up task after the backup, you can select to do it before the backup. Please check this screenshot for details.

As for the command to set up a number of incremental backups, I am sorry to disappoint you again, but that will not be possible.

However, as a workaround you can use 2 commands. One, to create incremental backups all the time and the second to either move/delete backups from your backup location on a regular basis. This way, for example, if you remove/delete an old full backup, a new full one will be created.

We do not have a list of these commands, but using this article as a reference you can create your own.

Just in case, feel free to use our command-line reference guide available here.

Hopefully you can also find these articles useful:

 - Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Automatic System Shutdown or Logoff after Backup or Recovery

 - Scheduled Tasks Cannot be Set to be Executed at Shutdown/Logoff in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, or Windows 7

If you need additional assistance or have any other questions, please let me know.

Thank you.

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