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Incremental & Differential Backup NOT Working

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Dear Sir or Madam,

I am using a trial version of Acronis True Image 2010.

My question is, I have created a TIB file using the FULL Backup feature. I have also validated the backup.

Now when I try to create an incremental backup and provide using the *.TIB image it does not create an incremental backup rather it just creates another image.

This is what I would like to do.

I would like to only save the files that are recently created and are not in the ordinal TIB file. So that every time I backup I don’t have to create an image of my HDD from the start Acronis Software will automatically find the updated and new files & folder and add to an existing backup.

Please give me suggestions and steps to that this.

Waiting for your reply

Sincerely

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When you created your backup task, did you set the backup method to be "Incremental"?

When you do this, the first backup will automatically be a "full" backup, because TIH must have a reference to be able to detect incremental changes.

Thereafter, whenever that same task is run, either manually, or by scheduling, an incremental backup should be performed, with only changed files in the .tib archive.

Edit: It should continue to create incrementals unless you have selected the "Create new full backup after" or any of the archive consolidation options.

Hi

Thanks for replying back.

There are three options for the backup.

1. Full
2. Incremental (recommended)
3. Differential

I have used Full backup. My question is, since I used Full backup now if I only want to add new files to the existing backup such as new pics, mp3 files, doc files etc I need to use the incremental backup and provide the source to add in to the already existing backup TIB file.

This is where it gets confusing because I only want to add new files. Why acronis is creating another FULL Backup Image.

Dont you think acronis true image is just wasting time and system resources {space} by creating a new image file besides of adding just the new files into the backup.

Please let me know.

Take care

Writing to existing .tib file may result in corrupting the existing archive if the operation is terminated in the middle. Is the second .tib file created actually a full backup - i.e. with the size roughly of the first?