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How can the manual option of using an incremental or a full backup be made in Acronis True Image 2020.

Also, to get a complete 'system image ' backup- is my SSD, desktop or a partition preferable to create this?

Thanks for your help.

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Hi Tony

Welcome to the Acronis user forums.

To answer you second question first: the procedure adopted depends non your needs and the configuration of you computer. If you only have one drive, then you should create a disk and partitions backup task (this is preferable to full computer option as you may accidentally include attached USB drives, including the one to which you are making the backup). This should include all partitions on the drive, including hidden partitions such as Recovery and UEFI, and manufacturer recovery partitions. How often you back you the full drive depends on how often the content changes; it is often a good idea to do a backup both before and after installing a new application and before and after a major Windows update. I find it useful to do files and folders backup for my user files; the ones with documents, downloads, media - you may wish to create several separate tasks, for example where media changes much more that document or downloads.

If you have a separate data partition, then it should be backed up as a separate task, and probably should be backed up frequently. You should supplement this, where appropriate, with a files and folders backup for those folders the content of which changes regularly.

With the exception of backups before and after installation (or removal) of applications or installing a major Windows update, you should schedule them regularly.

You will nee to decide on the type of backup task created: single version; or incremental or diferenential, and the number of incremental or differential backups between full backup.

Ian