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Need Daily Incremental in a new file each day

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Hi. Long time user. First time writer. :) Er, yep...

I recently purchased True Image 2021 Standard, upgrading from 2015, when I build a new Windows 10 computer.

I'm trying to configure the backup scheme to work so that I have a Full backup, and then every day thereafter I get an Incremental. The issue is that daily Incremental needs to be in a new file, and seems to instead be expanding the single file.

My use case is that my backups are going onto a NAS, that itself has a cloud backup service.

Modifying and expanding the 1TB TIBX daily make it impossible to maintain for offsite mirroring.

How do I make a new Incremental file each day?

From searches, I found discussion on "version 11" vs "version 12" schemes, but am not finding this in settings; it may be an outdated reference, or relate to a different Acronis product.

Thanks in advance.

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Joseph, welcome to these public User Forums.

The behaviour you are seeing is correct for the new .TIBX format backup files introduced from ATI 2020 onwards where incremental 'slices' are combined with the full backup .tibx file when they are created.

KB 63516: Acronis True Image 2020: Incremental backups do not create separate files when using new backup format

There is no 'official method' to switch Disks & Partitions backups between using .tibx files or using .tib files.

See forum topic: How to create a Disk backup as .tib (not .tibx) which will create a new backup task using the older .tib format in the Windows ATI 2020 or 2021 GUI.

Steve,

I found some KB articles after my post, while it was pending moderation, that illuminated the 2020 change. I have to say this is a pretty disappointing limitation.

That said - Thank you for your quick response here, and for the forum post you wrote/linked. I'd hoped there was some workaround to make this possible.

What I ended up doing last night was taking a TIB image I made of the system using ATI 2015, after I first installed Windows and my core programs, before I upgraded to ATI 2020. Going back to that image, I was able to load it into ATI 2021 and make an Incremental scheme with new files for each iterative backup.

I think what I did will work, but it's not ideal - my "full" backup is 22GB and then the first incremental is ~400GB. Don't think that matters, but I'll probably give the approach you outlined a try. If only because I want to change the encryption options.

Thanks again!