Assistance setting up a scheme for Monthly Full Backup each month with Daily Incrementals
I have been using TI for many years and a long time ago their support suggested creating a Pre-Backup .BAT file containing a line similar to:
IF "%DATE:~7,2%"=="01" ( DEL B:\Backups\Gateway10\*.tib )
This script deleted all .tib files on the first of the month, just prior to the incremental backup beginning.
After upgrading to TI 2016, I'm getting an error stating:
Information: The specified file does not exist. Details: Click Retry to try to read from the same location. To create a new version according to the current backup scheme, click Ignore
Without human intervention, the job hangs and fails.
Thanks for any assistance or thoughts.
--Tom


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Hi Steve,
Thanks for the quick response. This makes total sense, if they've gone to a database model to manage backups. I'm going to give the "non-stop" backup option a try, since this is an opportunity to jump out of my comfort zone. If I'm not happy with it, I'll try the incremental with a 28-day cycle, not quite the monthly I've been used to but pretty close.
I purchased TI2016 a while back, but just got around to installing it. In your opinion, for just general/routine backups (nothing special or essentially critical), is there any compelling reason to upgrade to the newest 2017 version?
Thanks.
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Tom, there are a number of enhancements with the 2017 version, but for me the key one is the change to support from just 30 days (from date of purchase) to a whole year of support with 2017.
Other than that, there is better support for NAS devices and enhanced Cloud services but there are also a few bugs around in the current build version of 2017, so if you are comfortable with 2016, may be worth waiting a little longer. You may get nagged a little to advertise that 2017 is available but easy to ignore!
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