Going only with Incremental ?
How reliable is to perform a initial fulll backup and then go only with Incremental ? The documentaion says about the risk of data loss but how exactly ? Do people here do only incrementals ? Is it reliable ?
I'm evaluating Acronis and want to send the backed up files to Amazon S3 Glacier.


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I agree with the advice given by Steve. I would add that the longer the time between backups the fewer the number of incremental backups as the risks of loss are much higher the less frequent the backups are run.
On the system on which I have my critical data (on a Raid 5 array) I have three sets of backup tasks, one to a local disk, one to my NAS and one to Acronis Cloud. Each set contains a two incremental backups, the first runs every day and the second once a week.
Ian
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