True image home 2011 and nonstop backup intervals

No, there is no way.
Also, I don't recommend NSB as the *sole* backup for a system drive. It might not contain all the info you need, depending on your system setup, you cannot validate this backup and you have only access to the last version from the recovery CD (doing a system restore from the recovery CD is recommended). YOu can use it in conjunction with a full disk image.

If 5mn is too short, you could use a regular disk and partition backup and update it every hour or less often.

Ok I understand...
Can I make an automatic partition backup scheduled every 2 hours for example...? Or I have to do it manually?
What's happen if pc is off at scheduled hour?
Thank you

Yes, you can.
If you have a back up disk large enough to contain 3 times what you have to backup, here is a possible setup:
a) Choose disk and partition backup, in the upper right corner, select disk mode, select the disk where you system is
b) Make sure your backup disk is correctly selected in "destination". Click on it, scroll down to "browse", verify you are happy with the naming of the backup files. Close the destination window. You are now back to the main setting window.
Click "backup options" in the lower left corner.

c) Go the scheme tab. Click on the first button, select custom. Select incremental backup. Select run a full backup every 6 incrementals (one backup every 2 hours means you will have one new full backup every 12 hours. Increase the number of incrementals if you need less often, and/or increase the time interval. Don't run a backup with a *lot* of incrementals before a full backup. Think of it this way: if you have to go back to the last full, would it be tool old for your comfort?). Finally, turn on auto-cleaning, and select keep only the most 4 recent backup chains, for example.

d) Go the advanced tab, validation. Leave the "run validation after backup" unchecked. Click on the schedule link there, choose weekly, every other day, at 9pm, for example. In the advanced settings there, turn off "run when computer is idle" and "if missed, run when computer starts up". Click OK

Important: go back to the scheme tab, click OK. If you don't go back to that tab, the autocleaning settings will not stick (UI bug).

d) Click on the backup schedule. Set it up to run every 2 hours (or any time interval you want). In advanced settings, uncheck all options. Click OK

Click run backup now. ATI will run a full backup, and then start backing up every 2 hours.

If you don't have enough backup disk space, let me know.

well, thank you for this GREAT tutorial! I've saved it for the future :-)
For now I have enought disk space, I set daily backup and I also check "if missed, run when computer starts up" because my pc is not "always on".

I don't understand this very well:
"Don't run a backup with a *lot* of incrementals before a full backup. Think of it this way: if you have to go back to the last full, would it be tool old for your comfort?)."
Why? I can't restore my system from one of my "incremental point"?
For example if I have the first full backup (made on sunday) and 3 differential (1 monday, 2 thu, 3 wed) and today is THURSDAY, can I restore my pc to TUESDAY?
Or the problem is that if i lost the monday incremental (cause the ipotetical clenup) I can't go back to my full from wed?

I attach my config.

I let you know in a couple of days if it's will ok
Thank you again!!!!!!!

Yes, you can restore any incremental you want and there is nothing wrong with incremental backups, don't get me wrong.

The point I was trying to make is that if one incremental archive in the chaing goes bad for any reason, all the incremental backups after that one are also rendered useless. So imagine you start a long, long chain of daily incrementals on Jan 1st. Unfortunately there is hard disk error on July 1st that corrupts your Jan 2nd backup unbeknownst to you. On Dec 1st you want to restore Nov 31st backup. Well, you can't because the Jan 2d backup is dead, and all the backup afterwards are useless. So the only backup you can use at that point is your last full, done on January 1st.

Of course, the case when the incremental that fails (which is rare) is the first one after the full is an extreme case. But I think the logic remains: is your last "trusted " full backup really too old for you to come back to? If yes, you are running too many incrementals.

I think you are fine with your settings.

Don't forget to run a validation from time to time and to have an ACronis recovery CD ready. You should boot on the CD and verify you can find your backup, and validate it from the CD.

NB: Differential backups can be viewed as better from a resilience perspective, since each backup contains all the changes since the last *full* backup (so the intermediary differentials are not needed to restore, just the full and the differential archive you have chosen to restore). Of course, the downside is that differential backups become bigger and bigger as they accumulate all these changes.