How to schedule an incremental backup every hour

Can someone tell me how I can schedule an incremental backup every hour? Also, can I create backup sets and have them deleted automatically after a certain amount of days?

 

In "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools", open Task Scheduler and select "Task Scheduler Library > Paragon Archive name arc_***". Double-click that, go to Triggers tab and click Edit... Select Daily and Repeat task every: 1 hour.

Automatic deletion should be in Cyclic Backup, but that isn't available in the free version.

I think what you're doing is overkill though. If you want something more constant, try rollback software or system virtualization.

 

To delete older archive from backup folder you can add the following script to the bottom of your existing script, just above the "endcall" in the end.

Set the SET STRING ARCDIR to the folder that need to be adjusted and the SET VALUE DAYS to the number of days that you want to keep.

This script was written by Paragon_Matt and it working for me just fine.


SET STRING ARCDIR = "D:/Full Backup/User/"
SET VALUE DAYS = 15

SET VALUE COUNTER = 0
XFIND
OPTIONS
RESULT = TEST
RECURSIVE = DIRECTORIES FIRST
RECURSIVE LEVEL = 0
START = STRING(ARCDIR)
MASK = "*.*"
SEARCH = WIDE
FILES = ON
DIRECTORIES = ON
ENDOPTIONS
BEGIN
SET VALUE COUNTER = VALUE(COUNTER) + 1
IF((NOWTIME-(FILECREATETIME(STRING(ARCDIR)+"/"+STRING(TEST)))) >= (VALUE(DAYS)*86400)) THEN
PUSHSTR(STRING(ARCDIR)+"/"+STRING(TEST))
ENDIF
ENDXFIND

DO
SET STRING STR1 = POPSTR
FILEDELETEDIR(STRING(STR1))
FILEDELETE(STRING(STR1))
SET VALUE COUNTER = VALUE(COUNTER) - 1
WHILE(VALUE(COUNTER) > 0)
FILEDELETEDIR(STRING(ARCDIR))

 

Thanks J_L, I think it is crazy that they hide that feature like that. Overkill, not really. With incremental backups the time to run every hour is about 1 minute. This way if a disaster happens I will only be missing data from 1 hour or less.

 

Thanks cincinnatijack, I will give this a look.

 

By number of days, do you mean how old the archive is? Thanks for the script.

 

The script checks all the archives in the folder looking at the archive create time (FILECREATETIME) and deleting any archive that the "Create Date" is older then today's date minus set number of days (SET VALUE DAYS).

Be careful, this script will delete ALL the older files in the target folder and not only the backup archive.

 

I see, does it work on the Backup Capsule?

I've set it to the target to "ufsd://hard0/", should I change that?