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ralfonat
February 27th, 2007, 05:32 AM
Hello,

a) I was trying to setup a differential backup schedule: Fullbackup at the first of the month, then diff backups. I thought that this would give me a history of 4 weeks to go back in time.

b) On a second thought however, I noticed that at the time the fullbackup is made, all previous diff backups become useless. (although TI doesn't delete them).

c) OK, so I thought will do a cycle like this: On odd months, do full backup on first and diffbackups to X:\odd.tib. On even months, do full backup on first and diffbackups to X:\even.tib. This will give me a history of (4-8weeks).

Two problems:

d) On the first of each month, the fullbackup will be created, the diff backups will stay tho (however useless)

e) How do I implement the schedule in TI? I don't see any even/odd months setting. I can only choose every second month. But starting from what? Creation date of the task?!

f) I have seen that TI stores its schedule info in a hidden registry path. But I don't really want to mess around with these settings.

g) Is it possible to spawn the backup tasks from the windows task planner (which has the ability to select months)?

- kongo

Acronis Support
March 9th, 2007, 09:34 AM
Hello ralfonat,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/).

We are sorry for the delayed response.

Please notice that Acronis True Image stores backup schedules in .tis format files.
To execute backup tasks from Windows scheduler please create the following batch file:

**batch file content**

cd X:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\TrueImage\

start TrueImageService.exe /script: "X:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Acronis\TrueImage\Scripts\SCRIPT_NAME.tib.tis"

**end of batch file content**

Where X is the drive letter of the system partition (where Acronis True Image is installed) and SCRIPT_NAME is name of the appropriate *.tib.tis file you wish to execute.

Thank you.
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Marat Setdikov