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I am a new user and bought this product based upon a computer technician that services my machine.

When I watched an animation of how Acronis handled daily back ups, I felt this was what I needed most.
What I saw was this:

- There would be an initial back up on day 1 week 1 that would be a constant ( kept virtually foever )
- Day 2 week 1 would add in and so on to day 7 of week 1
- Day 1 week 2 would create a back and add it to the list.
- Day 2 week 2 would replace day 2 week 1 and so forth through the week.

So at the end of week 1 there would be 1 full copy and 6 incremental copies

At the end of week 2 there would be 2 full copies and 6 incremental copies. So no matter how many back up I ran there would always be only a maximum of 8 with the newer backups replacing the older ones.

I am doing daily back ups from my C drive to a 1.2 TB external drive and Acronis has 65 backups on the external and I have 250 gb free. The program is not doing what was shown in back up animation.

The program is not performing as presented or I've set it up incorrectly.

Any help would be appreciated
Thank you.

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Start a new task pointing to a new folder of sub-folder on an existing backup folder. Target folder should be empty.

Use the illustration below to create a new backup scheme. In the example,
Keep the 6
change the 4 to 1 to keep only the most current full + 6 inc.
Additionally checkmark the option to "do not delete" first version (original).

The program will keep the first full without any future delete. Version1 or Chain1
It will then run 1 ful and 6 incs. (Version2 or Chain2)
Temporarily, it will continue to create another 1 full plus 6 incs. However, upon completion of last inc (#6), the version 3 will be kept and the version 2 will be deleted.
So at the end of the 3rd full, you will have the original full plus the most recent full +6.
And the chain will repeat itself. Keeping the first original but replacing the old of the weekly sets.

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These 2 sample storage folders are somewhat similar (not exact) retentions.

Don't forget to start the very first backup a day early if you want the ongoing fulls to be on the same day each week. The second backup will also be a full.