how to change schedule of backup dates and times?
where is the tab to adjust the dates and times of backups ?
"Unfortunately, you shoudl not change any existing backup job after it has been created and backup have been run. Trust me when I say this, you will come to know grief with that backup down the road at some point if you do."
Are you taking the p*ss?
I now find that once I've created a backup, and tested it, I can no longer tweak it, but have to start all over again?
I now definitely regret updating to the lated version of True Image. It's become unusable, and I'll just be deleting my backup plans and using something else. Finished with Acronis thanks.
It's a recommendation, not a requirement. YOu can make changes if you want. Many do and have no problem. However, I've found the best performance/consitency when leaving them alone. If you configure the backup scheme correctly from the beginning and leave it alone, you're much more likely to have a very reliable and consitent backup experience.
If you do make changes to a backup scheme after backup have run, the backup version chain count gets reset so people often wonder why they have more incrementals or differentials than they should before the next full runs and this leads to a delay in the cleanup as well. You can use the product however you want, but if you keep edits to existing backup scripts to a minimum (or not at all), I believe you'll have a better experience with the program as it runs in Windows.
If you go with something else - best of luck. Do what you gotta do to have reliable backups. I can tell you from experience that there is no backup product that is truly set and forget. Over time, through appicatoin upgdates/upgrades, Windows upgrades/updates, changes to the OS, changes to third party applications, malware, antivirus, etc, at some point, backup programs that are deeply embedded into the OS functionality become impacted. When users switch to a new backup product, they often feel it is "superior" or better because it is a fresh start. Over time though, opinions often change. I upgraded from 2016 to newer versions in 2016 with no issues. I have since upgraded to the first and second beta of 2017 as well with little issue (other than the beta bugs that are being worked out in testing). As for backup schemes and backup reliability - still no issues though.
And yet I can still find no way of updating any backup scheme. Each time it begins by offering me a clean slate to re-select the data from scratch.
I don't use incrementals or differentials, all I need to know is the date the backup was created to be able to restore any file or partition that I want. I've been able to do this succesfully since Version 8. I've also been able to change the backup scheme at will. So performing a backup and seeing how long it takes was always part of my setup procedure. Too long and I was able to simply slim it down and split it into two (create a separate scheme as well as the slimmed down first one). Or change the day and time that the schemes ran. I also come from a business environment that regularly tested backups, and I always made a point of doing that on a regular basis. There's little as frustrating as needing a backup and finding that all the backups you've been faithfully carrying out haven't been doing what you expected.
But now I can't. In order to change the scheme, or the schedule, I have to delete them and create new ones each time. Unless there's a way that I haven't been able to find.
Bob, you can edit any existing backup task by selecting it in the left hand pane. Then click on the options button at the bottom. If you have an encrypted backup, you'll be prompted to enter the password first. Then make your changes and to commit them, click the "backup now" button which is essentially the same button (you shoudl be able to click a drop down next to it and say run later as well so that you don't actually have to run the backup at that moment in time, but you need to do this or run the backup to commit the changes).
