Missing "Schedule Task Wizard" Page?
I'm using True Image Home 10 build 4,942. My PC has two internal drives. On the primary drive I have the "C" Windows OS and a separate "I" partition used only to backup data files on the second internal drive "E". On the "I" partition I have created a "backup location" with an 80GB max size.
On every Sunday I want to create a fresh full backup of a directory "My User Files" on the E drive to the backup location on the "I" drive. Every other day of the week I want to create a differential backup. On the following Sunday I want Acronis to automatically create a new full backup and repeat the process.
Reviewing the TI Home 10 user guide I see on page 51 a Schedule task Wizard that seems to offer exactly what I want. It allows one to create differential backups a new full backup after X number of differentials, except despite using the wizard to launch the Schedule Task Wizard it seems this menu never appears no matter what options I select.
What did I miss? Can I accomplish my goal with one scheduled task or do I have to create one task for a weekly full backup and another for the other 6 differentials?
Thanks in advance.
IN versions prior to 12/2009, you had to create a Backup Location in ATI and then choose that location under Backup Locations (and not anywhere else on the directry tree where that location shows up) and then when you create the task, it will offer the options you mention. A common mistake many of us mistake is to create Backup Location and then when creating a task we look onthe directory tree and choose the name of the directory we created as Backup Location but don't choose it where it shows up under Backup Locations (the direcftory name will show up in two places in the directory tree -- why Acronis programmers decided that was an okay way to do things is completely beyond comprehension -- but if you remember that little bit of dunceheadedness on Acronis's part, you can make it work, especially if you're using ATI 10 rather than the dreaded ATI 11).
With ATI 12/2009, ATI abandoned Backup Locations as a way of setting user limits and it's done in that version by setting consolidation rules, which is a while diff ballgame -- one that kept many of us from going to the park. ;)
I did create a "Backup Location" and set the backup policies. Then I launched Operations/Schedule Task and select the Dir to be backed up, then the previously created "Backup Location" but when I get to the type of backup it gives me the ability to do Full, Incremental or Differential ( provided a full backup already exists), but it does not give me the menu option shown on page 51 that appears to be ble to create the differentiald and full backup via the same Schedule Wizard menu. Unfortunately that's exactly what I want to do.
That happens when one selects the backup location from the wrong place and it's easy to do.
On the directory tree, all the real directories will show up including whatever you made for Backup Locations. Additonally a virtual directory will show up that is called "Backup Locations" and under it will be repeat entries of the dirctories you made for Backup Locations. They the directories you make as Backup Locations show up in two places on the directory tree. If, e.g., you create a Backup Location called "mybaks" off of the root of drive C: then the directory tree in ATI will show:
c:\mybaks
and it will also show
c:\Backup Locations\mybaks.
The inc/diff limits will show up in the Task Wizard only if you choose "mybaks" from the latter and not the former.
You are correct, in addition to the actual backup Dir I created there's another Dir at the very top of the tree just beneath the Acronis icon but beyond view in my case due to the length of my tree. This is real easy to miss!
I now see the mystery page :-) Many thanks for your perservance!
No prob. The best of us were confused when ATI 10 came out. I think I was one of the very first, if not the first, to complain on the forums that the limits weren't available because I made this same mistake. There are many footprints on this path. ;)