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How to set this up in TI?

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I want to take a full backup off a system on the 15day day of each month and then all other days are incremental backups.  I only need to keep two full backups/incrementals at a time.

How do I set this up?

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David, welcome to these public User Forums.

The Acronis task Scheduler is not flexible enough to do exactly as you require unless you use multiple backup tasks.

You could setup a Full backup task that runs on the 15th day of each month.

You could setup one or more further tasks that create Full plus Incremental backups that run daily for a set number of days (number of Incremental versions).

The scheduler doesn't offer options that cater for months having different numbers of days, i.e. 31, 30 or 28 / 29 depending on the month, so backups can 'creep' due to this.

David,

Please review the link below for an overview of creating a backup.  When you get to step 6 in the link (Options) the Schedule and Scheme can be set for the backup Task.  Then apply the following steps:

  1. On the Schedule screen tick Daily to set the Task to run once per day
  2. Next, tick the "Once per day" option then set the time for the backup to run
  3. Next, click on the Backup scheme tab
  4. Under Backup scheme: click the "v" carat on the right of Incremental and select Custom
  5. Under Backup scheme above look below for Backup method which by default is Incremental.  Adjust if necessary
  6. Next tick "Create a full version after every "#" incremental versions" Adjust "#" to 15 in your case
  7. Next click on "Turn on automatic cleanup"
  8. Tick the "Store no more than "#" recent version chains"  Adjust "#" to 2 in your case.

This will get you as close as possible to your desire for a 15th of the month full as possible.  Unfortunately it is not possible to configure a Daily backup task to accommodate a designated day for which a full version will be created.  If you need to have a full version on the 15th then a second task can be configured to do just that on a monthly basis without the daily incremental's

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