Can't figure out how to setup incremental backup with periodic consolidation/verification with ATI 2017
I have a 1TB data drive that backs up to a NAS. I've allocated ~3TB of free NAS space, which I hoped would be more than plenty. And yet, I keep running out of space.
I think I'm not translating what I want to do, into the right settings for the custom backup scheme....or perhaps I'm underestimating how much free space is needed?
My goal is for ATI to run weekly incremental backups, keeping at least 8 and at most 12-weeks-worth of these weekly incremental versions.
I also want ATI to confirm (validate? verify?) the integrity of the backup set every month...and run whatever consolidation and garbage-collection it needs to do, to discard old incremental backup versions.
When I run a full backup on this drive, the initial file is ~600GB, and incremental backups fluctuate 2-8GB. 3TB free should be plenty, and yet, my settings result in multiple _full_ files being created.


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This is what the scheme settings are now, but I can't guarantee these are the ones I had before posting. It's possible I had it to store "10 recent version chains", which would explain the blowup. The backup schedule is set to weekly.
So based on your input, I've modified to this:
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