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Need help setting up schedule

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First I am moving away from Symantec System Recovery (SSR) to Acronis True Image 2015. With SSR I can create a schedule like the following:

1. Create a full backup of my C: drive only
2. Do an incremental every hour for a week
3. On Sunday start a new full backup
4. repeat step 2
5. Keep 3 weeks worth of backups and then on the start of the fourth set, delete the first full backup and all incremental backups in that set
6. Keep this 3 weeks of backup sets rolling forever.

This way I will always have 3 weeks worth of backup data if I need to restore.

Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks,
Gary

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How many incrementals do you expect to completed before the next full backup occurs?

Be sure and read this. When restoring an incremental backup, the program DEMANDS that all prior incrementals from that chain be present and fully readable otherwise the selectded backup cannot be restored.
GH25. Understanding differences between Inc and Dif for Safety

My pont being that you will probably need more frequent full backups or fewer incrementals.

GroverH wrote:
How many incrementals do you expect to completed before the next full backup occurs?

Depends on the hours my computer is on. It could be (7 days X 24 hours a day = 168) worse case, but will be less

Be sure and read this. When restoring an incremental backup, the program DEMANDS that all prior incrementals from that chain be present and fully readable otherwise the selectded backup cannot be restored.
GH25. Understanding differences between Inc and Dif for Safety

To save space, I will be doing Inc.

My pont being that you will probably need more frequent full backups or fewer incrementals.

In this case why don't I just take a full backup every day? Just kidding, as this is not realistic. So how do I create the schedule as I requested, or just wait until SSR supports Windows 10?