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I am a new ATI user. I have ATI Home 2010 installed on a laptop running Win 7 Home Premium. I do backups on an external Seagate HD. I did my first backup (full) after I upgraded from Vista to Win 7. Now I'm scheduling to do Differential backups each Tuesday at 9AM and a Validation Task each Tuesday at 6:30PM. I've set up to Create a new full backup after 5 Differentials and then to delete the previous backup archive.
Changes to my system are normally minimal.
1. My understanding is that ATI does a full backup prior to doing the first Differential. If that's true, should I delete the Full backup I already created?
2. Does the backup/validation scheme I've established seem reasonable?

I'm really kind of flying blind so I would greatly appreciate feedback. I tried the Acronis website but it seems they no longer provide chat or Email support. Very disappointing.
I also apologize that I was not able to find answers to these or similar questions in the Forum even though they may be there. Thank you.

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My feeling is, if you've already made a full image and it validates and you have the external space on the image drive, then keep it. It becomes the 'gold copy', just make sure you give the scheduled version a different name or image to a different folder.

Now this is really a personal choice, but I prefer to validate immediately after I've had an image made, if it fails, then I can run the imaging process again. Whereas if I leave the validating until much later, a PC crash in the between time means I might have a nasty surprise waiting for me.

Don't forget to make the rescue CD and boot from it to make sure the Linux environment can see all your drives and can work with your hardware. If you don't have (yet) another spare harddrive to make an actual restore to, try to follow all the restore steps up to the point where it asks if you want to go ahead - here stop otherwise you'll wipe your current drive. At least though you'll be 98.9% confident that the rescue environment works on your machine.

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