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2. File backup “Daily incremental version + weekly full version”
Case: You have files and/or folders you work with every day. You need to save your daily work results
and want to be able to recover data state to any date for the last three weeks. Let’s see how you can
do this using a custom backup scheme.
1. Start configuring a file backup. Refer to Backing up files and folders for details.
2. Click Options, open the Schedule tab, click Daily, and then specify a start time for the backup
operation. For example, if you finish your everyday work at 8 PM, specify this time or a little later
(8.05 PM) as the start time.
3. Open the Backup scheme tab, and then choose Custom scheme instead of Incremental scheme.
4. In the Backup method box, select Incremental from the drop-down list.
5. Click Create a full version after every [n] incremental versions, and type or select "6".
In that case, the program will first create the initial full backup version (no matter how you set up
a backup process, the first backup version will always be the full one), and then six incremental
versions day by day. Then, it will create one full version and six incremental versions again and so
on. So every new full version will be created in exactly a week's time.
6. To limit the storage time for the versions, click Turn on automatic cleanup.
7. Click Delete version chains older than [n] days, type or select "21", and click OK.
8. Check that all settings are correct and click Back up now. If you want your first backup to run
only at the time you specified in the Scheduler, click the down arrow to the right of the Back up
now button and select Later in the drop-down list.
3. Disk backup “Full version every 2 months + differential version twice a month”
Case: You need to back up your system partition twice a month and create a new full backup version
every two months. In addition, you want to use no more than 100 GB of disk space to store the
backup versions. Let’s see how you can do it using a custom backup scheme.
1. Start configuring a disk backup. Refer to Backing up disks and partitions (p. 45).
2. Select your system partition (usually C:) as the backup source.
3. Click Options, open the Schedule tab, click Monthly, and then specify, for example, the 1st and
15th days of the month. This will result in a backup version in about every two weeks. Then,
specify a start time for the backup operation.
4. Open the Backup scheme tab, and then choose Custom scheme instead of Incremental scheme.
5. In the Backup method box, select Differential from the drop-down list.
6. Click Create a full version after every [n] differential versions, and type or select "3".
In that case the program will first create the initial full backup version (no matter how you set up
a backup process, the first backup version will always be the full one), and then three differential
versions, each one in about two weeks. Then again a full version and three differential versions
and so on. So every new full version will be created in two months.
7. To limit storage space for the versions, click Turn on automatic cleanup.
8. Click Keep size of the backup no more than [defined size], type or select "100" "GB", and click
OK.
When the total backup size exceeds 100 GB, Acronis True Image 2021 will clean up the existing backup
versions to make the remaining versions satisfy the size limit. The program will delete the oldest backup
chain consisting of a full backup version and three differential backup versions.
9. Check that all settings are correct and click Back up now. If you want your first backup to be run
only at the time you specified in the Scheduler, click the down arrow to the right of the Back up
now button and select Later in the drop-down list.