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Can I Run Full/Differential at Separate Times on the Same Job?

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Have been doing weekly full backups (including the occasional restore/clone) with great success, but now need to modify a job to run a weekly full backup on a particular day and time, with the daily differentials running at another time. Is it possible to do so with TI2018 or any other Acronis product?

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True Image use a task approach. You create separate tasks to do different things. In my case I have several disk based tasks:

  • Disk 0: 500gig PCIe NVMe SSD, which Operating System (OS partition plus hidden UEFI and recovery partitions) - Task 1, disk and partitions backup
  • Disk 1: data partition - Task 2, disk and partitions backup
  • Disk 2: installation files - Task 3, disk and partitions backup
  • Documents and downloads folders - Task 4, files and folders backup
  • Photoes and Videos - Task 5, files and folders backup

This is a simplified version as I also have backups to different locations, on the PC, on my NAS and using Acronis Cloud.

So you can do what you want, but not with only one backup task. You could have one task which is full + incremental, another that is full + differential, and yet another that is only full backups,

Ian