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Force full backup on Sundays, incremental otherwise

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Using ATI 2020 Build 25700.

I have backups set to create a full version on Day 1 and then incremental versions on Days 2-7. Sometimes the computers are off overnight, so no backups are run and I don't do any "catch-up" backups (this is OK).  However, this will eventually shift the full backup to a different day which is not desirable.

Is there a way to always do a full backup on Sunday early morning (when I'm not usually using my computer) and do incrementals on the other days of the week?  Any solution needs to avoid doing a full and an incremental backup on Sundays if possible.

If you have any questions or need more info, please let me know.

thanks,
randy

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Randy, welcome to these public User Forums.

The Acronis scheduler doesn't have the flexibility to do what you ask, especially if there are any missed backups which push the next full backup out by one or more days.

This would also apply to the backup scheme because in essence you are asking for a scheme where the number of incremental backups between full backups is adjustable on the fly, which again Acronis do not provide for!

Ideally, you would need to have scheduler options like those provided by Macrium in their Reflect application where you can define different schedules for both Full and Incremental backup operations.

Randy, I've been thinking about this. While there is no way I've found within the Acronis sphere, here's how I might approach it.

I would create a post-command which would simply increment a counter somewhere. The counter would desirably run from 0 to 7. Create a Windows scheduled task to run a script before the scheduled backup in which you want the full which will read the counter. If the counter is 7, all is OK. But if less than 7, just run the backup task from the command line however many times you need to bring it up to 7. As incremental backups, they should run quickly. Then reset the counter to 0.

A bit of a hack, but it should work... so long as you plan for what can happen if the counter goes over 7.

 

Steve and BrunoC -- Thanks for the replies!  I'll take a look at your suggestions to see what I can do.

thanks,
randy