New full backup only on Fridays but incremental other days!
Is it possible to schedule a backup so that every Friday evening a full new system backup is created. Then every night an incremental backup is created until the next Friday where a new full backup is made. Ideally I would only like to keep the previous weeks backup set.
This sounds simple but I have tried a few methods but none work as I want.
So - the question is.... is it possible


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Thanks for the info.
I'm sure I've tried those settings ... but the weak link (as you said) is if for some reason a scheduled backup is missed it throws the whole thing up in the air and Friday no longer becomes the full backup day!
For businesses who are closed over the weekend it would be so useful to have a schedule setting to fit this need. The reason for the Friday full backup is that it then has all weekend to upload to Dropbox whilst the business is closed and so nobody has their internet speed impacted. If a full backup occurs on a weekday other than Friday it would impact the next days internet speed....
Maybe to be safe I'll just have to set a schedule to do a weekly full backup once every Friday evening.
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Dave, understand the reasons why this is needed for many users, please use the Feedback tool in the ATI application to recommend this change to the scheduling options.
Another option would be to make the backups to a local drive then copy this separately to your Dropbox folder for uploading on a Friday only.
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Dave, take a look at the following forum topics that may offer help for your requirements.
Topic: How can I do a bi-weekly backup?
Topic: fixed day full backup & other days differential backup ?
You could also try sending a private message to BrunoC based on the first topic above.
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