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Opinion for my customer - 2.5TB of data

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Good morning, I would kindly have your own opinion about using Acronis 11.7. I have a project for which I need to backup data 2.5TB (750000 files). Infrastructure is this: source NAS -> Backup Server -> Target NAS. Entire Network is 1Gb.
The space available on the destination NAS is 7TB, I'm going to do a FULL backup and continue with a chain of incremental.
Suppose we get in a year with 365 incremental and one FULL, if I convert the last incremental backup to a FULL and then deleting all the remaining 365 back (1 FULL 364 and incremental) is correct? 
I would like to do this for the backup stability, or can I trust never convert any backup?

I thank you because every opinion may be useful. I state that I make one complete followed by incremental because of time and then space.

Excuse my English.

Thank you

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Hello 90gio,

Welcome to Acronis user forums! I'd like to add the following comments on your scenario:

1. First of all a NAS-device is always backed up as files/folders. File-level backup means that snapshot is not created and files in use will not be backed up. ​You'll get a message similar to 'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process'. We recommend scheduling NAS backup for the time when files on the NAS are not in use.

2. It's better to create a full backup more frequently, becuase if one incremental backup in the chain gets currupted, you'll loose all backups following the faulty one. For better data redundancy it's also recommended to store backup copies in different places (NAS, tapes, Cloud etc), e.g. have the operational data on external drive for quick access and store the older backups offsite.

Thank you,