Help with Home 2011
I have recently installed Home 2011 and it seems to work fine. I made a complete system and partition backup WITH NON-STOP BACKUP OFF as suggested by an Acronis chat rep.
After ten hours of backup Iw was about 73 gigg short of matching my original c drive which I was trying to match completely. As per the suggestion of the first rep I spoke to I went to turn on NON_stop Backup. When I did it said it was going to take another 5 hour to complete and a new back up of my drive also started. So I had to complete backups going at the same time.
I started a new chat and the rep I got in touch with was a waste of an hour of my time. He took forever to answer my questions and never did answer what I asked.
Anyway ca someone help: What do I do? I woke up this morning and now there are 2 complete drive backups on my external drive.. I guess overnight another system and partion backup was made. I have use up a considerable amount of my 2 TB backup drive already with the 2 Backups now listed.
My main goal is to have a complete maychup of my system programs and files AND then just have Acronis fill in the blanks for any new work of addition or subtraction that I make on my C drive.
Can some one please help.

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Vincent,
Non-stop backup and Drive/partition backups are complementing each other. I recommend you do a regular disk/partition of your entire system at any rate. This should be your "core" backup. For this, you can choose any scheme you want (full, incremental or differential) depending on your need to save time, save storage space, or go back in time.
You can turn on non-stop backup in addition to have more frequent snapshots.
This way, if you have the need to restore, you can first try to restore from the non-stop backup to the state a few moments prior to the disaster, or you might have to go back to your "core" backup if that restore doesn't suffice to fix disk issues. For example, a non-stop backup might not get you back your feet if you have a hidden system partition and a complete disk failure.
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