Incremental and Full Backups

Can anyone tell me what will happen with these scheduled tasks.

Every Monday I do a full backup of C:
On each of the other days of the week I do an incremental backup of C:

So, the second Monday, and all following Mondays the full backup gets overwritten. Now the incremental backups have no "base". What happens to the incremental backups already there? What happens to the new ones?

It should be clear what I want to happen, how do I do it?

 

after the FULL gets overwritten your incrementals are useless.

We use a week shuffle script with 1 scheduled incremental TrueImage Job. The beauty of an incremental job is when its doesn't find a full. It creates one ;-)

here's the script

REM ============== CODE ====================

@ECHO OFF

REM ----- IMAGE CONSOLIDATIE SCRIPT V8 ---------------

REM ----- MADE BY JEREMY OTTEN DATAMEX BREDA BV ------

REM ----- DATUM: 18-06-2007 --------------------------



REM ----- STEL SERVERNAAM EN SERVER SHARE IN ---------

SET NASSERVER=NAS01

SET IMAGESHARE=IMAGE

SET SHAREPASSWORD=password



ECHO DISCONNECT Y: IF EXIST

IF EXIST "Y:" NET USE Y: /DELETE /YES



ECHO RENAME IMAGE BACKUP DIR'S....

NET USE Y: \\%NASSERVER%\%IMAGESHARE% %SHAREPASSWORD%



IF NOT EXIST "\\%NASSERVER%\%IMAGESHARE%\%COMPUTERNAME%\WEEK1" MD "\\%NASSERVER%\%IMAGESHARE%\%COMPUTERNAME%\WEEK1"

IF NOT EXIST "\\%NASSERVER%\%IMAGESHARE%\%COMPUTERNAME%\WEEK2" MD "\\%NASSERVER%\%IMAGESHARE%\%COMPUTERNAME%\WEEK2"

IF NOT EXIST "\\%NASSERVER%\%IMAGESHARE%\%COMPUTERNAME%\WEEK3" MD "\\%NASSERVER%\%IMAGESHARE%\%COMPUTERNAME%\WEEK3"

IF NOT EXIST "\\%NASSERVER%\%IMAGESHARE%\%COMPUTERNAME%\WEEK4" MD "\\%NASSERVER%\%IMAGESHARE%\%COMPUTERNAME%\WEEK4"



Y:

CD %COMPUTERNAME%



RENAME WEEK1 WEEK1A

RENAME WEEK2 WEEK2A

RENAME WEEK3 WEEK3A

RENAME WEEK4 WEEK4A



ECHO DONE!



ECHO SUFFLE IMAGE BACKUP DIR NAMES....

RENAME WEEK1A WEEK2

RENAME WEEK2A WEEK3

RENAME WEEK3A WEEK4

RENAME WEEK4A WEEK1



ECHO DONE!



ECHO MOVE BACK TO C:

C:



ECHO DISCONNECT Y: MAPPING

NET USE Y: /DELETE /YES





ECHO CLEANOUT OLD WEEK4 (NEW WEEK1 DIR)....

DEL \\%NASSERVER%\%IMAGESHARE%\%COMPUTERNAME%\WEEK1\*.* /Q





ECHO DONE!

REM ============== CODE ====================

 

Hello babakan,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software.

Please notice that with current set of tasks every Monday the full backup will be replaced, and incremental ones will be no longer usable. Then, new incrementals will be created according to schedule gradually replacing the old ones.

You can find the detailed instructions on how to use Acronis True Image in the respective User's Guide.

Could you please explain exactly what is it and what version of Acronis True Image are you using? You can find the full version name and build number by going to Help -> About... menu in the main program window.

Thank you.
--
Marat Setdikov

 

Hi Jeremy,
Can you explain where this script has to be written and what does it do exactly?
Thank you!

 

This script is used when you write your image on a NAS server (which we use for our customers) but ofcourse you can edit it yourself to work on a external drive.

This is wat we do with customers.

1. create 1 incremental schedule everyday at 0600 which writes the images in the WEEK1 folder
2. once a week at sa 5:55 we run this script. which shuffles week1 to week2 etc...

This way you will always be able to go back 1 complete month with full and incrementals.

do you understand?

 

HI Jeremy,
I think I partly understand.As I do not backup on a server but on an internal and external HD, I wonder how I could use such a script.
Thank you!

 

I want to do a full backup every Monday and incrementals to it the other 6 days. So on the next Monday the full backup will be replaced and I would like all the existing incrementals to be deleted to start the process over. I assume the old incrementals would be useless when the full is replaced.

I have TI 9.0 3677

 

That is correct. You can delete them -- be sure you delete the right ones. If you use Managed Backup Locations, ATI will take care of deleting old stuff for you. Oddly, when a new full is made the orphaned incs are left behind but are overwritten as subsequent incs are made. I don't know why ATI works this way but it does, and it works, odd as it is.

good luck,
sh

 

Thanks, sounds OK.
What is Managed Backup Locations? I don't see that in the menu. I am using TI 9.

 

Its only available in TI10.