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Create New Folder Per Backup Chain

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I have acronis set up to create an incremental backup chain for a set of my files. It creates a new incremental every 6 hours for a week before deleting the entire chain and creating a new one. Is it possible to get acronis to create a new folder for each individual backup chain? For example, I would like it to make a new folder as such-

://Destination/Full_B1 

Once it auto cleans B1, it should delete the entire Full_B1 Folder and then, for the new backup chain, create a folder-

://Destination/Full_B2

Is it possible to have it do this? At least, is it possible to have it create a new folder for each backup chain (I don't care about auto-cleanup of the folders themselves as much.

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Alex, welcome to these public User Forums.

Sorry but it is not possible to do as you ask - there are no options to allow the destination folder to be changed automatically and this is not possible by using the Pre / Post Command options as would need to modify a number of different locations where such information is stored by ATI.

See the forum topic:  Acronis True Image Wishlist - where you could put in your wish for this type of feature to be considered by the developers, plus you could use the Feedback tool in the ATI GUI to send in the same feature change request.

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Hello Alec Bos,

may I ask you to elaborate on your use-case? Why you'd like to have every backup-chain in a dedicated folder?

Thank you in advance! 

I have my computer set up to create backups to a dedicated external drive. I then have the backups uploaded from the drive to a cloud-based storage system which I use for other services as well. When Acronis deletes old backup chains, the cloud-based copies still exist in my account. Instead of having to go through and delete multiple entries online, it would be much easier if I could simply delete a single folder containing an entirety of the last backup chain.

Not sure if this is feasible, but you could upload each one to a separate directory, then all you would need to do would be delete the directory. It may be possible to create a script to do this depending on the way the cloud service works and the software you have available. You can probably do this with a Directory Opus script.

Ian