Advice on my backup strategy
Hi,
I am new to ATIH 2012. Previously I had ATIH 9.0 and it saved me big time when my Windows XP drive blue screened on me and I was never able to boot up that drive again.
Rather than try and get my old XP OS back I decided to upgrade my machine and just move the data from my backup drive to my new Windows 7 machine. That all worked out well and I was able to use ATIH 2012 to read my verision 9.0 archive and get all of my old data back.
My backup strategy on my old machine was to do a full backup to a USB drive and then just have Acronis run scheduled incremental backups to the USB drive every other night. When the USB filled up I would deltete everything and do another full backup and start the process over.
That is how I set up my new USB drive. Full back up and then incremental backups every evening.
It occured to me that there is a small risk in my current process. If my hard drive were to die after I deleted the old archive I would be without any backup. While the chances of this happening seem small it also seems kind of naive to think that it couldn't happen. I suppose it might be a good idea to have a 2nd USB drive and do a full backup to it prior to deleting my old archive. Then I could delete the old archive and do a full backup to backup drive #1 and do incrementals on it until it fills up and so on.
Should I get a 2nd USB drive for this? I still have my old 280 gb drive form the XP machine but I was hanging onto that one in case there is something I forgot to bring over to the new machine.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions and thanks to everyone that has been responding to my recent posts.
Steve
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Thanks for the feedback.
I set it to 6 like you suggested.
When it creates a new full backup should I delete the previous chain after it finishes?
Steve
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If you set the task up to keep only x numberof "recent version chains", the program will do the deletion without any need for you to do manual deletes of any chains.

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Thanks!!!!!!!
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You may also find this link helpful plus there is good help for 2012 version along the left margin under "Useful Links."
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705
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