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How to make Acronis True Image 2016 each time overwrite same backup file at full backup?

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How to make Acronis True Image 2016 each time overwrite same backup file at full backup?

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Edward, welcome to these user forums.

You cannot make ATIH 2016 overwrite the same full backup each time it runs.

What you can do is use the auto cleanup rules to Store no more than 1 recent version chains which will delete the previous backup file after the next new full backup has been created successfully.

The files themselves will follow the Acronis backup naming rules as stated in the User Guide.

Backup file naming

A backup file name has the following attributes:

  • Backup name.
  • Backup method (full, inc, diff: full, incremental, differential).
  • Number of backup chain (in the form of b#).
  • Number of backup version (in the form of s#).
  • Number of volume (in the form of v#).

    For example this attribute changes when you split a backup into several files. Refer to Backup splitting for details.

Thus a backup name may look the following way:

  1. my_documents_full_b1_s1_v1.tib
  2. my_documents_full_b2_s1_v1.tib
  3. my_documents_inc_b2_s2_v1.tib
  4. my_documents_inc_b2_s3_v1.tib

If you are creating a new backup, and there is already a file with the same name, the program does not delete the old file, but adds to the new file the "-number" suffix, for example, my_documents_inc_b2_s2_v1-2.tib.

Thank you for the detailed replay.

So I understand there's no option to define a file name for the backup, it's created automatically. Is it correct? 

Edward, the file takes its name from your backup task name.

If you name you backup task as MyFullDisk then this will be the name of your backup MyFullDisk_full_b1_s1_v1.tib