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Trouble Creating Backup Rotation - Full not deleting

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I'll admit not sure what title should be. I have created an Incremental job initially I wanted to have 14 incremental jobs That is 2 Full backups per month on the 15th day to delete that last "Full" and continue on with the incremental backups. I decided to change this and go with 1 Full per month and have 28 replicas/incremets validating each incremental. When I "modified"the jobs upon the 28 revision it did not delete the full but just did another incremental backip and so on. CAn this bee done?. Do I have to delete and re- create the Job?/

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I'd like to exactly the same thing.

A new backup every month, incrementals all month.
Then start over.
I don't want to keep the last months backup once I do a new full back.

Both locally ad online.

So I also look forward to any responses.

This is my first post and hope I am in the right forum.

Thank you for your assistance, however, I need advice.

To ensure that the backups are correct, I believe I cannot backup while I am working with files on the drive?

That is: I am using Word (installed on C:) on a Word document in drive E. I can backup other drives but not E and C.

However, if I am using Word (installed on C) I cannot do a backup of E and C while I am working. It will have to wait when I am not working.

Do I have this correct.

Thank you in advance

Harvey

Hi Harvey, Chuck & Tim,
When Acronis creates a backup, it is a snapshot at that moment. It captures what has been completed and any change of data after the snapshot is not included.

Once you create a task, DO NOT EDIT. While you won't find that in the user manual, there is ample evidence of backup tasks not working as intended. If you must edit, then stop the task and create a new task pointing to a new empty folder or sub-folder. The user manual says it is OK to mix tasks in the same folder but DON'T as you are asking for grief. My recommendations is each task to its own folder.

The task that seems to work the best is based on keeping X number of recent version chains. The chains can be either full or increment or differential. My preference is NOT to use the option based on x number of elapsed days or based x amount of storage space. These may work but again keeping x number of recent chains seems to have less issues reported.

As to which type of backup is best, that can be debated. When considering how many incremental backups you want to keep in the same chain before the next new full, be reminded of the risk factor or retention rules. Example: if you have a chain with 30 incrementals and you want to restore #30, then all 30 files must be pure and non-corrupt as all 30 will be restored in sequence. If any of the earlier backups are corrupt or non-readable, then all backups after the corrupt file are useless. There are no repairs to a backup file. It is either good or bad. It is usually better to have more frequent full backup then it is to have more incrementals with fewer full type backups.

On the other hand, when restoring a differential backup and you have a full with 30 differentials, then all you need is the full plus any single differential or two files.

Also be reminded that when retaining chains, Acronis always creates a new replacement before deleting the old one so you need a little extra space for that temporary file awaiting deletion.

Don't be in too big a hurry to delete old backup files. Keep them as long as space permits. It is not unusual for considerable time to elapse before a missing or needed file is determined. If your data is important, keep multiple copies.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705
The preceding link provides examples of how to create either of the 3 tasks. Check images 11-Full or 11-Inc or 11-Dif for examples. Adjust the 6 and 4 to meets your needs. How many and how often is up to you as a personal choice. If you want your backup to be capable of producing a replacement disk, it is best if the backup includes all partitions with no partitions being excluded from the backup. This is especially true for backups of Window7 and Vista--many of which have boot or recovery partitions. No one size fits all but if you need to replace a partition, you need a backup of that partition and a single backup of all partitions in one backup files provides the most options with the fewest problems.

Here are a few examples of how the backups appear at various points during their creation and the numbering system is partly controlled via how your backup file name is constructed--if you use date or machine codes.

Examples of file names and folders:
http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/mvp/user285/folders/win7-6…
http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/mvp/user285/folders/win7-6…
http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/mvp/user285/folders/all-te…
http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/mvp/user285/folders/backup…
http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/mvp/user285/folders/marv-t…
http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/mvp/user285/folders/2011-d…
http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/mvp/user285/folders/3_cons…
http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/mvp/user285/folders/full_o…
http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/mvp/user285/folders/cleanu…

Groover thanks for your reply. Just another question...IF i create a "Full" backup (the 1st full) and lets say I Intended to do a incremental and then decided to do a diffrential prior to any revisions being done...eX: I create an incremental job and it runs the first backup ....can I modify the job to do a differential prior to any revisions/replicas running. Or do I have to delete and run another full?

My comments related to the Windows installed version. TI is not predictable as to what it will always do when a task is edited. My personal recommendation as I stated above is "no edits". A task which is set up for incrementals and later changed to differentials or the reverse would probably throw TI in a tizzy and it would run the backup (maybe full) and then not delete anything. I would advise against editing the task. Create one task for full plus inc and another task for full plus diff. If you wish, set the task to "do not schedule" and run either at your convenience via a desktop shortcut which is easy to create from the "edit backup options".