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Sleeping mode and scheduled backup

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Hello

As a newcomer with a trial version of ATIH (and some experience with data backup) I have questions to better understand who ATIH works.
- Presently, I am thinking of the following backup scheme for a client that uses his laptop primarily for private usage (and sometimes only for business) and has only a small new ¦ modified daily data production:
-- Full backup at the 1st of each month
-- Differential backup each day of the month
-- Storage space for 6 (+ 1) months with this scheme
- This laptop is staying up and running at daytime in a stable location normally, but moves around in the world sometimes during the year.
-- Staying around inactively means sleeping mode.
-- Running at daytime only means sleeping mode at nighttime, again.
- This client needs a fully automated backup solution.
-- He is willing to interfere for restoring user data, only.
-- For restoring the system, he will ask for external help.

- Q-1: ATIH seems not to run in sleeping mode (there are other programs that do that elegantly). So, how do I have to set up the scheduled backup so that I still can profit from sleeping mode (the laptop should not be forced to be up and running all day long because of needs of the backup program)?
- Q-2: I set the differential backups up for each day of the month, i.e. also for days that do not exists in some of the months (e.g. 30th of February). How does ATIH handle this?
- Q-3: Sometimes this laptop is moving around in the world, i.e. backup is not possibe because of the missing external hard disk. How does ATIH handle this?
-- Will ATIH still try to add differential backups for missing days or collaps the lost days to one differential backup or eliminate lost days completely?
-- Does ATIH wait for the next full backup before continuing with the differential backups of the next month?
- Q-4: Roughly after 6 month the storage space will be filled up with backup data and data reorganisation will start. How can I make a copy of the newest full backup to a different partition all 6 months automatically to get an additional long time backup line?

Best regards - Studi1

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1. I can't think of a way around sleep mode, but if running Win 7 and using hybrid sleep, I have found that ABR11 will run albeit very slowly (I haven't tried this with 2012, but I believe it will work the same way - perhaps a question for Acronis Pre Sales).

2. How have you chosen to set up the daily differentials? I think selecting Weekly would eb the better way to go, you can always remove days if you need to do that, but weekly you won't have to worry about how many days in a month as the schedule will run daily every seven days.

3. TIH will attempt to run and then enter a not run error into the TIH log. What happens next depends on whether under the advanced option you have selected the Missed backup option, if not selected then a missed schedule will stay missed, if ticked it will run the last missed event.

4. With 2012 that is going to be difficult. Off the top of my head you would manually copy the archive, making sure that the next scheduled task is a full. I have a feeling there could be a problem with removing the whole archive, perhaps you should try it using a weeks archive to see what happens.

Your other option would be to consolidate the archive on a monthly basis. Beware though, you will need approximately the size of the archive again as free space for consolidate to work.