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Custom Scheduled Backup failure

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Yesterday I set up True Image 2014 Premium to schedule a custom Partition backup:
Full - Thurs, 1:15am
Incremental - Sat, Mon, Wed, 1:15am

This morning, the Incremental backup was flat out gone. The Full backup had autonomously changed its schedule to execute at 12:59pm.

It's as though some of my settings hadn't saved and half of them (the 3day/wk Incremental) were somehow deleted. I spent an hour with the online manual but found it useless as the images differed from that which my software generated.

I'm running an Intel i7 PC with Systems/Windows 7 OS on a WD Velociraptor. All settings & updates are up to date. All software is UTD.

Thoughts?

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You may want to review Grover's Guide https://forum.acronis.com/forum/56872 info on backup tasks.

Hopefully, you created your backup scheme based on the procedures illlustrated in this link.

GH12. Create Custom Incremental Backup Scheme. 6 Inc, Keep 4 chains. The 6-4 is user choice.

From your description, it sounds like you used the weekly schedule and these four days
__Thurs, ______Sat, ________Mon _____ Wed.

The first backup will be a full backup and will run when the next scheduled 1:15 arrives. If you created the task after the Thursday 1:15 am, the next scheduled time should be on Sat 1:15 am. If you particularly wanted the full on Thursday, you may have to run a manual incremental to get back on schedule as the next full will run after 3 inc's have been created.

GH4. Illustrate Manual Backup Now option or Repeat backups.

I don't know why the time changed. I do not believe it was trying to play catchup for Thursday missed 1:15 am.

You might want to look at this link and make sure the setting (run only when idle) is not checked.

GH8. How to view or set somewhat hidden advanced scheduled backup settings.