I got Acronis TI last month and installed it on my laptop (I
downloaded the latest upgrade patch as well, so I'm running the latest
build - I think its 613). I ran a full backup of my C: drive (Windows
XP Home Edition) at that moment, and restricting the TIB file size to
700MB to fit on a CDR. The backup created 16 separate files and named
it in incremental order (Backup01.tib to Backup16.tib)

After a couple of weeks I ran an incremental backup (Which I based on
file Backup01.tib). This process took the same amount of time and
created additional 17 files in incremental order of the same size
(Backup17.tib to Backup33.tib).

I have a few questions/concerns regarding this:

Why should incremental backup create the same number of files of the
same size as a full backup and take the same amount of time?

Since with every incremental backup I get 17 odd files of 700MB each,
should I save all the incremental files if I need to restore the
system at a later date? or should I just save the initial Full Backup
and the Latest incremental backup fileset? (to save all the
incremental files would be diskspace prohibitive and doesnt make
sense, also I'd rather run a Full Backup instead of an incremental
backup every couple of weeks)

I'd appreciate any feedback/assistance in this matter.

Rgds...

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"Rohit" <rohitrr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I got Acronis TI last month and installed it on my laptop (I
> downloaded the latest upgrade patch as well, so I'm running the latest
> build - I think its 613). I ran a full backup of my C: drive (Windows
> XP Home Edition) at that moment, and restricting the TIB file size to
> 700MB to fit on a CDR. The backup created 16 separate files and named
> it in incremental order (Backup01.tib to Backup16.tib)
>
> After a couple of weeks I ran an incremental backup (Which I based on
> file Backup01.tib). This process took the same amount of time and
> created additional 17 files in incremental order of the same size
> (Backup17.tib to Backup33.tib).
>
> I have a few questions/concerns regarding this:
>
> Why should incremental backup create the same number of files of the
> same size as a full backup and take the same amount of time?
>
> Since with every incremental backup I get 17 odd files of 700MB each,
> should I save all the incremental files if I need to restore the
> system at a later date? or should I just save the initial Full Backup
> and the Latest incremental backup fileset? (to save all the
> incremental files would be diskspace prohibitive and doesnt make
> sense, also I'd rather run a Full Backup instead of an incremental
> backup every couple of weeks)
>
> I'd appreciate any feedback/assistance in this matter.
>
> Rgds...

don't mean to be rude, but why do you ask a bunch of strangers on Usenet
rather than Acronis technical support?  Have they been not responsive?

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"ahedge" <ahedge@direcway.com> wrote in message news:<RbTQc.80816$vX4.56928@cyclops.nntpserv
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> "Rohit" <rohitrr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:717c7809.0408051157.14d50de0@posting.google.com... 
>
> don't mean to be rude, but why do you ask a bunch of strangers on Usenet
> rather than Acronis technical support?  Have they been not responsive?

Haven't heard from them in more than two weeks!!!

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Because he can. Why do you care?

There are other image products like V2i protector that use a special device
driver to keep track of changes across boots. Their incremental backups are
very fast becuase they know exactly what needs to be backedup.

Acronis, like others, I suspect, have to do a compare at backup time to see
what has changed from the last backup.

Jamey



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> "Rohit" <rohitrr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:717c7809.0408051157.14d50de0@posting.google.com... 
>
> don't mean to be rude, but why do you ask a bunch of strangers on Usenet
> rather than Acronis technical support?  Have they been not responsive?
>
>

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