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Acronis TI 2019 NonStop Backup Question

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I am using Acronis TI 2019 on two Windows 10 Pro 64bit machines and one Windows 7 Pro 32bit machine doing full and incremental backups nightly at 11 p.m..

I would like to use Nonstop backups because any file changes are backed up immediately (every 5 minutes).  I am always afraid if a drive fails between backups I will loose all of my work for that day as I am professional photographer.

The Acronis TI 2019 and older versions user guides say you can use Nonstop backup but it is not recommended to "protect" your computer.  I don't why the machine wouldn't be "protected" if the backup runs every 5 minutes and you have plenty of backup drive space.

I would appreciate anyone's thoughts on using NonStop backup.

Thanks - Bill

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Non-stop backup is folders and files based and does not allow the recovery of PC, only the files that have been backed up. I use non-stop backup to supplement disk level backup which I run once or twice a day depending on the importance of the data.

I suspect non-stop backup performs the backup in a different way - focuses on changes to files - to other backups that are determined by changes to individual disk segments (not sure how folders and files backup works - need to do some investigation). 

Ian

lan,  thanks very much for your good explanation to my question. 

 To make sure I understand, the non-stop back up every five minutes will back up any changes that occur to my “data” folders or my individual files.  If I install a new program, etc. non-stop back up will not back up that activity.  Am I correct?

If I understand your answer above I can schedule a disk level backup (incremental and full.back up’s) every night at 11 pm as I am doing now PLUS also set Acronis to run non-stop too.  Is that correct?

If that is correct I didn’t know I could run/schedule two different types of back up’s to run “together” if you understand what I am saying.

I think Acronis True Image is a very comprehensive application but sometimes I get confused!

 Thanks again for tot help   

Bill

 

Bill, I would recommend reading the section in the ATI 2019 User Guide on NSB which should help answer most of your questions on this topic.

Thank you Steve for your answers.  I have read the section of the user manual you suggested.

Daily at 11 p.m. I am running a full backup after every 5 incremental backups.  Can I also run a non-stop backup concurrently with my full disk backups?  I am thinking this will backup my files and folders "continuously" plus let me back up and restore the entire disk if the disk should fail.

Thanks very much,

Bill

Bill, only one Acronis backup task can ever be active at any time, so if your disk backups run at 11pm, then the NSB would be queued while that is active (or the disk backup would be queued if the NSB was still active at 11pm and would start once NSB had finished its current actions).