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How to have multiple full backups and specify Differential Backups

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I am changing from Acronis Backup Release 11.7 to Acronis True Image 2020. With Backup, I would have a Full backup and daily Differential backups in folder "A", created with Backup Plan One. My next Full backup created, using Backup Plan Two,  would be in a second folder ("B"), along with its daily Differential backups. In this way I had an emergency current-1 full & Differential backup in case I deleted something I should not have.

With True Image, I don't see any way to point to a specific folder - I don't see any "plans". I also don't see how to specify Differential backup. When I tested doing a second backup after my first full backup, it didn't ask what type of backup I wanted,  just started  to do what appeared  to be another full backup.

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Welcome to these public User Forums.

I would recommend reading through the first few sections of the ATI 2020 User Guide which will give you a good introduction to how to use the application.

ATI doesn't use the same terminology as AB 11.7 but the principles are similar as far as I understand (as just an ATI user).

ATI uses backup tasks, where for each task you can set the Source by clicking on that panel to reveal options for 'Disks & Partitions' and 'Files & Folders'.

Next, you can set the Destination, again by clicking on the panel to reveal further options as to where you want to store the files, this includes a 'Browse' option which allows you to select a specific folder etc.

Once the Source and Destination are selected, then click on the Options button at the bottom of the panels and here you can set the Schedule for the task, then the Backup Scheme to be used with options for Full, Incremental, Differential schemes.  You can also configure automatic cleanup options on that same page.  There are further tabs for Notifications, Exclusions and an Advanced options page.

When you have set all the options, then look closely at the Backup now button and you will see that this can be expanded to offer further options to backup later or in an hour etc.

You can create multiple backup tasks for different types of source & destination data etc.