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2013 backup scheme

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I've updated both Win7 machines to this latest Acronis version.

The default backup scheme is something I'm not familiar with but looking at what it has done over the past 2 weeks the scheme seems like a good one (plus I have the storage room--a second internal 1T drive).

Specifically, it's 'version chain--delete older than 6 months'. Is there a good reason to use a different scheme than this one that I'm not seeing/understanding?

There's also an option to make the destination media bootable. This also sounds reasonable but I've held off pending some feedback on why I wouldn't want to do this.

Mark

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The default version chain is pretty good. Differential backups are pretty efficient. Since the scheme doesn't clean that aggressively (time wise) and you have enough space for a few fulls on your disk, that should be OK. Monitor the space taken by your backups. Change scheme if you run out of space.

Make the media bootable is not necessary: you just need to use the recovery CD to recover disk and partition backups. That option could be useful if you backup to a "removable" device under Windows definition (CD/DVD, USB Flash drive)

Mark,
You might be interested in this thread as well.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/38647