How can I roll over my Acronis backups?

[leimrod]

Hi,

I'm currently making incremental backups of my C drive every day to an external 500GB USB drive but its got to the point now where I only have about 20GB left. I can see the drive being completely filled in the next week or so.

I'm using Acronis True Image Server 9.1 (build 3854)

Is there a way to tell acronis to roll over the backups every, say, 14 days?

[shieber]

Read the user guide regarding Backup Locations and Managed Backups.

Basically, you create a BAckup Location with limits on size, age and/or number of files, and then create task to backup to that location, specifying how many incs/diffs between fulls.

[leimrod]

-{ Quote: "Read the user guide regarding Backup Locations and Managed Backups.

Basically, you create a BAckup Location with limits on size, age and/or number of files, and then create task to backup to that location, specifying how many incs/diffs between fulls." }-

I've read about this option but cant find it in my version of Acronis. What version was it introduced in?

[shieber]

Sorry. It was introduced in version ATI 10 Home and, I thought Erver 9.1 but maybe in Server it didn't shouw up until Echo. In older versions you have to do it like in other brands of backup/imaging programs, i.e., manually.

[leimrod]

Is there any scripts or batch files available here that would automate this roll over?

[shieber]

I used to use this one below for uniquely naming and rotating full backups but there's more interesting stuff in this thread:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=128324&highlight=batch+shieber



My backups were made to E:\mybackup.tib and the system drive is C:

The ATI post-command set the working directory to E:\ and called a batch file with this:

C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c rename-file.bat

the batch file contained:

set Day=%Date:~4,2%
if not exist mybackup.tib goto notthere
:delfile
if exist mybackup_%Day%.tib del mybackup_%Day%.tib
ren mybackup.tib mybackup_%Day%.tib
:notthere
exit