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Running "Non Stop Backup" and daily "incremental" concurrently

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I have two identical very large external eSATA hard drives on which the only content is backups. One drive is kept in a safe deposit box and one is attached to my computer (I switch these two drives once every 3 months).

I currently have Incremental Backup running daily at 3 hour intervals and have it set up to create a new "full backup" once every three days. I also want to turn on the "Non Stop Backup" so that I will not lose any more that 10 minutes or so of work. Can both of these backups run at the same time without causing a conflict?

If I set up a monthly "image back up" schedule, can it also run concurrently with the others or must I disable them first to get and accurate image. If disable is the answer, is there a way for Acronis True Image Home's Image Backup to automatically turn off all off all other backups while it is running?

My Operating system and programs are all on a dedicated internal hard drive. All of my data is located on an internal SATA drive that is also identical to the two eSATA hard drives (I bought all three at the same time and put two in Rockefish enclosures). I am using Windows 7 for the operating system.

Thanks, Jon

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I would suggest having the monthly task starting at a slightly different time perhaps by 5 minutes to the 3 hourly.

TI will automatically queue your tasks, so as one finishes the next one will run.