Quick Acronis 11 question

Craig321

Craig321

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Hi,

Just got Acronis 11 and using it properly for the first time.

I've set an incremental backup to go every week, Wednesday at 04:30.

Just wondered if the incremental will delete deleted files as well as copy new files/update existing files?

I know that some incremental backups don't delete deleted files so the backup gets huge over time, is this the case with Acronis?

EDIT

Also, which processes do I actually need for Acronis? (I want incrementals to run & I want to be able to browse existing backups)

Default on startup is: TrueImageMonitor, TimounterMonitor, schedhlp

Thanks,
Craig.
 
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I'm not quite sure if I'm understanding your question correctly but an incremental backup set needs the full back up plus all incrementals. This should take the least amount of space. If you just want to use the original full back up plus one then use differentials.

For your other question, I use scheduled tasks to start/stop stuff using batch files.
I set Acronis (Version 9) services to start just before the backup begins then schedule a batch file to terminate them, contents of the start file are:

net start "Acronis Scheduler2 Service"
start "" "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Schedule2\schedhlp.exe" /B
start "" "C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TimounterMonitor.exe" /B
start "" "C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TrueImageMonitor.exe" /B
 
JayMax said:
For your other question, I use scheduled tasks to start/stop stuff using batch files.
I set Acronis (Version 9) services to start just before the backup begins then schedule a batch file to terminate them, contents of the start file are:

net start "Acronis Scheduler2 Service"
start "" "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Schedule2\schedhlp.exe" /B
start "" "C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TimounterMonitor.exe" /B
start "" "C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TrueImageMonitor.exe" /B
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Thanks, that's a pretty good idea :)

JayMax said:
I'm not quite sure if I'm understanding your question correctly but an incremental backup set needs the full back up plus all incrementals. This should take the least amount of space. If you just want to use the original full back up plus one then use differentials.
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If I understand how Acronis works then you do a full backup first time, you then do incrementals every other time.

These incremental backups only back up changed/added files.

I'm just wondering if it'll also remove files that have been deleted since the last backup as if it doesn't remove them the backup will just get bigger and bigger :(
 
An incremental only backs up what has changed. Your deleted files won't be backed up in an incremental as it would exist in the full backup or a previous incremental.
If you were to leave a 4Gb file lying around in your OS temp directory and it got caught in an incremental set you'll be stuck with it. You'd need the full incremental set to do a restore.
With a differential set you could delete that days/nights differential to regain the space.
This isn't peculiar to Acronis - full backup, diffs and incs are standard backup methods with most backup apps.
I think I've worded that right, it's late :)
 
Ok, that pretty much explains it :)

So with a differential will it take the full backup and compare it against your current system and back up everything that's changed?

And a incremental backup will backup all changes since the last incremental backup, right?

Thanks very much
Craig.
 
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to help things, might be a good idea to run ccleaner via commandline about 5-10 mins before doing the acronis backups

task scheduler
 
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