"Create full version after every..." does not work
I have a backup set up with the following Backup Scheme:
Backup method: Incremental
Create a full version after every "6" incremental versions
Old version cleanup rules: Delete version chains older than "90" days
The problem is that it just keeps creating incremental backups and will not make a new full backup. Right now there is a full backup and 40 incremental backups (I installed this Dec 15). Is this a known bug or this there something I can do to make it create a full backup once a week?
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Carl,
Create a new task and use the recommendations of Grover for the clean up. The fact that it doesn't create a new full after 6 incrementals is one issue. Grover's recommendation should avoid issues about the lack of clean up, but I am not sure the 2 are related.
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Thank you for the information. I have created a new backup task and changed it to "Store no more than x version chains" as you suggested. I also changed it from Incremental to Differential because I think that will work better for me.
As Pat said, the cleanup issue is separate, and since I haven't hit the 90 days there was no reason to think it wouldn't work. The real problem here is that it was not creating a full version once a week. And my original setup matches the examples that Acronis provides, so I would hope that they actually tested that. Do Acronis engineers review these forums?
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Carl, this is an example of my results.

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The forum is seldom visited by Acronis staff and is not a company support forum, just a user forum.
You have to know that if you modify the retention settings (including the number of partials before a new full) during the course of a chain, you reset the counting. If you change from 6 to 7 after the partial number 5, you will end up with 12 partials (5+7), then the chain will behave normally. If you change it from 7 to 6 after the partial number 7 you will end up with 13 partials (7+6)
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Thank you both for your assistance. I won't know for 14 days whether this worked but I will update the thread once I find out. BTW I followed the advice and created a new task rather than editing the old task so that shouldn't be an issue.
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