Arconis Backup questions..

[Admiral Huddy]

I’m trying to set up a backup schedule using Arconis True Image that can be left to its own devices.

I’ve created a monthly fill backup schedule and a daily differential backup schedule.

So I’ve created a full backup as a start and the schedule rightly creates a new differential backup file each day, which is fine. However, one thing that did spring to mind is that there appears to be no rotation. This means that at some point, the number of differential files will just keep growing.

My question is, when does the system rotate? And is there any way of controlling this?

Do the differential backups start all over again at the next full scheduled backup.

If not, I’d have think about performing some kind of manual house keeping (i.e. delete the older differentials) and reset the schedule over again.

Basically, I want to leave the user with absolutely nothing to do.

Am I missing something here?

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Basically, i'd like a grandfather, father, son rotation system so previous backups are over writen. I can't expect this user to be setting up backups nor perform housekeeping.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

I've just read the following in the manual but it doesn't say anything about setting this up this way:

When the first backup on a schedule is executed, a full backup will be created. If the choice was (2) or (3), the next backup will be incremental (or differential) until the specified number of incremental or differential backups are made, the next time a new full backup and a set of sub sequential incremental (differential) backups will be created; this process will then continue until you decide to change it.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

That does and that's where I'm going wrong.. so I'll try that later.

Big help Many thanks