How to schedule for Full/Incremental backups for my drives

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I'm having trouble setting up an effective schedule for backups that doesn't eventually stop because it's filling up my target drive.

I have a partition and 1TB drive (Z") set aside on my hard disk to store backups. I want to take a full backup of my other drives (~250GB) once a week and incrementals on the other days. I want to keep at least one (preferably two) previous week's full and incremental backups in addition to the current week's. I want backup sets to stay on Z: until it fills up, at which time the oldest ones can be discarded.

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to configure the backups. My attempts so far have resulted in a single full backup and multiple incrementals until the disk fills up. At that point, the whole process stops because there's no more room on the disk.

How can I set up the schedule so it creates the sets of backups (full plus incrementals per week) that I want?

Thanks for you help in advance,

BillBR

Sun, 12/07/2014 - 21:31
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William,
Here is some reading material.

The link AGH-1 contains some general hints about backup tasks.

The link GH12 is an example of how you can set up a new backup scheme which will not fill up your disk and will provide automatic backup deletion of older chains. You do not indicate the total size of one weeks backups. Assuming that it is about 300GB, then you could set up full plus 5 incrementals (depending upon how many you want until the next full, and then set 2 as the "store no more than 2 recent version chains".
The program would make its first deletion after full #3 and then seconds later, delete the first chain. All this would consume about 850GB of storage space as the program creates its replacement first before performing the deleting causing a shortterm need for space every full backup.

All of the additional links are recent postings on the same type topic from which could be a learning experience and assist in your problem solving.

AGH-1. 64640: Do's & Don'ts--Hints to help prevent issues with your TIB

GH12. Create Custom Incremental Backup Scheme. 6 Inc, Keep 4 chains. The 6-4 is an example only with user choice for whatever number of chains to be retained best fits the individual needs.

GH58. Difference between Partition Mode & Select Disk Mode backups.

GH25. Understanding differences between Inc and Dif for Safety

GH13. Create Custom Differential Backup Scheme. 2 Diff, Keep 2 chains. The 2-2 is an example only with user choice for whatever number of chains to be retained best fits the individual needs.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/75806
75806: Automated Consolidation?

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/74168
74168: Automatic cleanup not working?

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28503
28503: Full Backup / Custom option / Automatic Cleanup is failing to cleanup after itself.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/70546
70546: Automatic Cleanup Settings Not Saved

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/72116
72116: Full, incremental, differential

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/75272
75272: Novice Question about Differential backups. Would like to maintain original and delete some of the early files

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/71576
71576: Clean up not working

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/74810
74810: Backup Scheme

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/70851
70851: Backup Plan that manages storage by itself?

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/70546
70546: Automatic Cleanup Settings Not Saved

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/74000
74000: Delete Back Up Versions Manually

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/71210
71210: how to manually delete backups from external drive

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/72092
72092: Is it safe to delete any increment backups after initial as long as you have most recent?

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/73484
73484: How do you delete backup sets?

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/61316
61316: Video: Create Differentials with Full Backup Once a Week with Cleanup

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/72152
72152: How to delete backups

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 02:37
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