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Dear Sir/Madam,

I am an old and aloyal customer of acronis. I have two issues here.

1. I have split up my data into couple of partitions on my single 1 TB seagate internal HDD on my desktop.
So after "C" drive, I have the following :

1. F drive as "Hospital data"
2. G Drive as "Patient data"
3. H drive as "Incomes data"
4. I drive as "Miscellaneous data"
5. J drive as "Medical education and medical association data"
6. K drive as "Multimedia and software data"
7. L Drive as "Movies and pictures" data

Now I have created acronis backups of each. For C drive I always take an incremental disc backup, for all the other drives I take incremental file backups . All backups are on a 3TB external seagate USB 3.0 HDD.

I have to come back again and again to wait for each backup to complete and then start the next backup. Could you help me to initiate a command so that once the backup for say, hospital data is complete,, verification is complete., the next backup for patient data starts automatically, gets verified and then incomes data starts and so on till the last backup is reached of movies data and then the PC shuts down. I have seen the features of pre and post commands in your acronis, but i don't know what command to put.

B> Issue no two is why have you shut off the chat feature for taking help for registered customers., It should not be buy support and then only chat is active. I feel this is inappropriate. It was not the case earlier. Acronis should remain customer fiendly as it was.

Regards

Dr Alok Modi MD

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Alok,

There are two ways you can accomplish what you want to do.

1. As you have run these tasks before you have a rough idea of how long they take. Have the start times for all but the first task a certain amount of time after the first task - the tasks will queue, si if one task hasn't finished when the next one is due to start you it will wait until the previous task has finished and then commence. In fact you only need to set each task to start five minutes later than the previous one and Trueb Image will do the rest. This is how I have my tasks set up, though I choose to have 30 minute time differences.

2. Check out Chain2Gen found in Grover's links in the left hand menu bar.

Option one is the quickest and easiest way to go.

I note in your post you don't make a complete disk image at any time, whilst there is no problem with what you are doing you need to be aware that the C: partition image won't contain the MBR which is required to make the disk bootable if you ever need to recover the C:\ partition, this is easy to put back, but a complete disk image perhaps once a month would be a good idea or even a base complete disk image and then recover the invidual partitions over that if needs be.