Create only one backup, instant consolidation
Dear all,
I'm having issues with the following backup process I want to achieve:
Each Monday I want to create a backup, I don't care if incremental or differential. The important thing is, I absolutely want NO versions. Every attempt so far has failed. It always created so many versions until I ran out of diskspace. I tried various settings like only 1 version and so on.
Can you tell which are the correct settings, to always have only ONE backup archive?
Regards,
Christof
Ouh, sorry!
Acronis True Image 2012.
Select Custom backup for the scheme, select Full for type. Turn on automatic cleanup and set at most one copy.
Check out userguide:
http://www.acronis.com/download/docs/atih2012/userguide
Alternatively you could select the premade Single Version scheme.
Be sure your target has room for at least two backups because the next backup is created before the prior one is deleted -- this is done for safety reasons-- so, if anything goes wrong with a backup, you aren't left with no backups.
Com,
When TrueImage creates its backups, it will create a replacement before deleting the original, so there will be some part of the backup procedure where you need to allow space for this extra full backup before the deletion actually occurs.
If you want the deletion to occur before the backup creation, you would need to use the C2G helper program as TrueImage will not delete the original before the replacement is created.
This link may be interest. Several examples illustrate 1 full plus two incs with only 1 full being kept.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/36089#comment-112798
You could change the two incs to something more or less or you could change the backup scheme to only full backups. If you choose a backup scheme that has only full backups without incs, check example 11-full inside the link below.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705
Note: In my opinion, editing a backup task can cause a backup scheme to malfunction. For best results, create the backup scheme correctly the first time and then leave it alone. If editing needed, then cease to use the old task and create a new task pointing to a new empty folder.
Be forewarned: Deleting a backup before a new one is made instead of afterwards is not wise. It is especially risky if you are keeping only one backup. If anything interrupts your backup process (a software glitch, operator error, power outage, etc.) you will be left without any backup. Worse you could be left without any backup at precisely the time when you will want to restore.
If you don't have enough drive space, consider what your data and system files are worth and the cost of additional external storage. Hdrives have never been cheaper, and if you can use USB3, they have never been faster.
I agree with Scott. There's a reason that Acronis True Image won't delete a backup until a newer one has been created: it's imprudent.
Hello guys,
Thanks for your input. The problem is I cannot create a full backup, as this just takes to long. Best would we one full backup, and then the changes getting immediatly written back to the main file.
Hello guys,
Thanks for your input. The problem is I cannot create a full backup, as this just takes to long.
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It doesn't take any longer to create a new backup when others already exist, then it does to create a backup when none exist.
The consolidation is going to take about as long as making a new full backup. Consolidation writes a new file out of the prior files in the set, in your case this will be a full and 1 inc.
To do it you'd set up an Inc scheme and set file limit to one so it consolidates every times to one file. But I think this won't help you time wise for reason stated.
You might try running on a schedule at some time when the PC won't otherwise be used or set to low priority and keep using PC while the backup is proceeding.
Ah, good point Scott. I don't use consolidation like that, so hadn't realized the time required.
If time is such an issue, and if you have the disk space, why not create just full disk backups?