Couple of questions

[jladelfa]

Hello all,

I have some questions regarding a few things.

One, is scheduling. I am successful at making an initial full image of each of my servers. I am also successful at having the incremental backups running every night. The problem is the size that these grow to.

So I don't know what to do. I run a full image, and then run the incremental for two weeks and then have to delete all of it because of the size.

So I was thinking, instead of doing incrementals, I would just do the full image every night. The problem is, I can't figure out how to make acronis overwright. I back up to a folder on a NAS, and I don't want acronis to keep putting one image after another in it. How can I get acronis to over wright the image it made the previous night?

Also, is there a way to schedule by specific days of the month? It looks like it only gives me options to run the backups ever 1,2,3 (and so forth) days.

One last issue, and maybe I'm just ignorant, but if I'm running sql, and I want it to back up correctly, I have to run VSS, right? But doesn't that lock the database rendering it useless for the backup time period? That sort of hurts. Or am I just misunderstanding what I'm reading?

[Acronis Support]

Hello jladelfa,

Thank you for your interesting in Acronis True Image

Can you please clarify the exact title of your product? If it’s not Acronis True Image Echo Sever for Windows than you can use Backup Server to set limitation for a number of backup archives to store. Check user guide for more information.

You can’t set specific date of the month to schedule backup task but you can use Weekly backups and set appropriate day of the week to schedule it.

You can use programs pre/post commands option to stop databases before the actual snapshot and then run them right after backup starts. Note that databases will be stopped only for several seconds. See user guide for pre/post commands examples.

Best regards,
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Dmitry Nikolaev