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Help setting up backup schedule

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I am trying to set up the following backup schedule and can’t get it right.

Start a backup on Monday of each week at 9am. Do an incremental backup every 2 hours. On Monday at 9am, delete all of the previous weeks backups, and start a new sequence. Repeat this week after week. 
 

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Gary, from your description above, it looks like you are wanting to delete the existing backup before creating a new backup.  This is not possible with Acronis as they will only delete the older backup after a new one has been created successfully.

If you attempt to manually delete the unwanted backup and incrementals before the task runs then you run the risk of getting a series of pop up error messages, one for each & every missing / deleted file.

If it has to create a new backup first and then delete the older one that is ok.

Gary, for that option, then set the automatic cleanup rules to use:

'Store no more than 1 recent version chains'

This will remove the older version chain (full + incrementals) as soon as the new full backup has been created successfully.