Limiting # of images kept
Acronis True Image Home 2010 build 6,053
Windows 7 Home Premimum
Seems like this should be as simple as it gets, but I am either misunderstanding something or not reading the correct sections of the documentation. All I want to do is:
Create a full image backup once a day of my system drive.
Keep 10 (or any given number, but let's go with 10) of those backup images of my system drive on my network drive.
When it comes time to create number 11, automatically delete the first one.
That seems so simple to me. The reason I wanted to do it this way is because as I understand it, creating incremental backups means that the process goes on forever and I must always (as in forever) keep that first backup. I didn't want to do that. I have no shortage of disk space, both internal and external, but that seems like a lame way to recover. I want to keep it on the net drive so that I can backup all 3 of my PCs in one place.
I have tried many different methods, with 2010 and tried for years with TI 11 Home but to no avail.
I thought that it could/would be controlled via the Acronis Secure Zone, but maybe I have been wrong about that. I cannot even create a Secure Zone on my network drive using TI Home 2010 (I could with TI 11). What am I missing?
Thank you.
Thank you so much GroverH. This saved me from being very angry. I don't mean to sound like a cry-baby but I am astounded that Acronis does not facilitate this within the program. It would seem to me that this would be the basis for any backup/recovery tool. I must be missing something. To plan on making incremental backups forever just seems like the dumbest thing in the world to me. I have worked in one of the largest systems installations in the world for over 30 years, I am no stranger to this.
Thanks again. I have the pgm you guys built and I will use it.
I want to do the same thing. Is it not already available within TI? I've set up a regularly scheduled full daily backup/image. I've set the options to keep 3 backups max and to not over write previous full backups. I'm currently testing to see if this works. So far I'm above 3 and none of the older ones are being deleted but it could be because I've just upgraded to the newest release and I reset the backup to go from weekly to daily. I'm not sure if the "counter" got reset during these operations or not so I'm letting it go a few more days to see what happens after I capture 4 backups with the new settings/changes.
But to the original question, isn't TI 2010 already set up to do the very thing the OP has asked? I know in build 6053 there was a bug where the counter didn't work. But this appears to be fixed in the April 1 release, build 7046. Do we need an outside source/program to do the counting now? Or can TI handle it?
Thanks.
As currently designed/released. TI does not naively support GFS grandfather/father/son backups.
That said, you CAN use TI to perform GFS backups if you use a helper program.
chain2gen being a example of such a helper program.