Can not get TI Home 2011 to overwrite existing backups.
My current backup regime is to create an image every week to a local drive on my PC (split into 700Mb blocks), and I then use another piece of backup software to check every couple of hours and if it finds a new image it copies it across the network to my server PC. I do this because backing up directly over the network was slow, I get a local and remote copy of each image, and if there is a problem copying the image across the network ( i.e. I turn the PC off!) then the backup software resumes next time the PC is turned on.
This worked well with TI2010, but with TI2011 I can not get it to simply overwrite the existing images - it insists on either adding a 1 to the end of the last image file, or a (1) or an _3FD56..... etc. Thus if I have image files called "Image1" to "Image5", next time I do a back up I end up with "Image1" to "Image5" and "Image51" to image "55".
I have tried deleting all existing images, uninstalling and reinstalling TI etc but I still get multiple images, which didn't happen with TI2010. I have therefore reverted to TI2010.
Is there a solution to this Problem?
Thanks for the information.
It is unfortunate that Acronis have chosen to view scheduled tasks and manual tasks as different - if I select a scheduled task and run it now it creates a separate backup rather than overwriting the existing one. So if for any reason a scheduled backup doesn't work, I have to wait till it is next scheduled to run to get an up to date image. Not a very good approach.
I don't think it is a consolidation issue - if so it would delete the old files when it had finished. It is leaving the original set of backup files and appending a new (full) one each time. I can see the logic of leaving an old file until a new backup is completed and then deleting the old one ( so that you always have one good backup), but this could cause a problem if you don't have room for two bacuk files (until one is deleted). Perhaps the "keep old until new is finished" procedure should be an option
I tried using increemental backups in a earlier version of TI, but found that regular defragging of the HD meant that each incremental backup was nearly as long and large as the original. Is there any change on this?
The manual tasks won't get counted inthe file number limit if you have one set. So you have to keep an eye out for that, manually inspect backups locations with Win Explorer to check on the count if you're using file number limits.
The defragging thing is because the defragger moves around sectors. The alternative would be to go by file date stamps the way backup progs did in DOS but they tend to be unreliable. I don't think there is a workaround for this; it's fundamental to doing the kind of backups that include system files -- tracking things down at the sector level.
I'm starting to think there is a bug in TI Home 2011. I'm having a similar problem and I've read that others are also getting either a "1" or a "(1)" added to the file name. Not to mention the previous backup isn't being deleted, so I'm running out of HD space very quickly.
During some recent tests, this 2011 setting kept 1 full backup and each new backup overwrote the prior backup.
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The (1) being added top backup is a known problem and a fix is expected in the future.