True Home Image 2010 - 7 Full backups on rotation.
How do i do 7 Full daily backups on a 7 day rotation.
I wish to keep 7 days worth of "FULL" backups but not exceed 7 backup files in total but always keep 7 days worth.
B1. (day 1) - (day 8) - (day 15)
B2. (day 2) - (day 9) - (day 16)
B3. (day 3) - (day 10) - (day 17)
B4. (day 4) - (day 11) - (day 18)
B5. (day 5) - (day 12) - (day 19)
B6. (day 6) - (day 13) - (day 20)
B7. (day 7) - (day 14) - (day 21)
And so on.
Any advice please.
Thankyou for your reply Scott, i'm confused to were to put the number of backups! What section does this go in.
I haven't used ati2010 in a while but you can find the user guide here:
http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/legacy.html
Go to page 75, Section 9.3.7 Automatic Consolidation. It tells you how to set limits.
IN ati2010, autmotic file management of backups is called "consolidation."
Iit's called that becasue Consolidate is when ati has exceeded the file limit and then tries to consolidate the incremental files, if any, into a single full file, and then, if the file limit is still exceeded, it deletes the oldest full backup. Since you're only doing Fulls, when ati makes one backup more than the limit, it will try to consolidate, find no incs to consolidate and then just delete the oldest file. They made this less confusing in later versions but other than the wierd way you set it up, it works pretty reliably in ati2010.
So you should set the number fo files to 7 and don't check the boxes for size or age.
TaxDevilLooney,
Try this Chain2Gen. It might seem a bit harduous at first read, but it is pretty straightforward and will do just what you want to do.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/3426
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I sugget you try the ATI setting first. Keep it simple if you can.
Thanks both of your for taking the time to help me out. :)
Ok i have set this as follows (Attached). I did have a bad experience with this when i came to restore one of the backups. I had an error saying "Not the last backup of set". So i need each file to work on it's own if that makes any sense. This is backing up a webserver.
iirc, that ought to do it.
That's Scott, i'll give it a whirl. :)
I wouldn't go down the path of auto-consolidation. First, it doesn't do what you want exactly: it will merge olders backups to keep your conditions true, not start a new series. Second, auto-consolidation is a lenghty process wich requires a lot of space. ATI has to copy all the backups it has to consolidate into working copies, then operate on them to "edit" them, then delete the older versions, then rename the working copies into normal copies. In some cases, there is something wrong that happens, the process stalls and the backup chain is all messed up.
Nothing wrong with trying it out, though, of course :-)
The merging of files does not occur if you are only doing fulls; all that happens is that the oldest file gets deleted.
Ah! I didn't know that. I stand corrected.
I'll have a test later today to see if the files are full separate backups :)