Sensible backup choices?
My first post and first exposure to Acronis True Image and I thought the community would be a good place to ask my questions.
What I was thinking of doing is creating a backup that weekly backs up the partitions of my PC (not all because one of the drives in the backup destination).
But because that could generate quite of lot of incremental activity (eg windows updates) I was thinking about setting up another backup of user files (so all of our documents and photos) and then running that as a daily (incremental again).
So my questions are, is there a conflict of backing up the same set of files twice? And secondly does that sound like a reasonably sensible idea?
I know that the 2nd question may well be opinion based but hoping to garner a sensible plan whilst not ending up running through disk space at some insane pace.
Thanks for response.
Chris


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Chris, Welcome to these user forums.
I am sure that you will have more questions as you learn all of the features and capabilities of True Image. Here's some suggestions:
If disk space is an issue, you should read up on incremental and differential backups and automatic cleanup. This starts on paragraph 4.5.2 of the user manual.
My personal opinion is that weekly backups are too infrequent. I prefer daily incremental backups.
Backup to an internal hard drive is OK, but could leave the backup data files exposed to malware & ransomware if Acronis Active Protection is turned off. MVPs recommend that Active Protection should be kept on.
You should give consideration to buying a USB hard drive and performing separate backups to the external hard drive. This could be your last line of defense against a ransomware attack. This could be weekly backup while the backups to the internal drive would be daily.
Regards,
FtrPilot
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