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- With Acronis True Image, creating a full image backup on an external hard drive is as easy as two clicks. Once the drive is connected and Acronis True Image is running, you click Add backup. The entire computer is the default backup source, so you simply need to assign the external drive as the Backup destination and then click Back up now.
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Does anyone know if ATI for Mac supports incremental backups? So far I can only find full backups.
Hello,
Acronis True Image for Mac creates firstly a full backup in an archive (in a .tib file).
All next backups will be incremental.
You will have only one .tib file (and a .tib.metadata file near it) for the whole archive chain, which includes your last 10 versions.
For more information please see 'Basic concepts' in 'Help'.
Please let us know if any further questions.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
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I have just installed ATI for Mac version 1.0.5145 on my iMac running OS X 10.9.5. I have confirmed it does do a full backup without errors. However, it does not seem to be doing a subsequent incremental backup as part of the daily backup scheme. It appears to be repeating the previous full backup.
How can I correctly configure the backup scheme to allow ATI to perform incremental backups? The original full backup was about 303GB. ATI is now processing the second daily backup and is showing progress at 63% with 144GB stored on the destination drive. The only differences to the Mac HD has been minimal activity just a few field changed since the full backup.
Why is the incremental backup so large?
CM
Here's a follow up to my previous posting. Over the past days, ATI for Mac has completed one full initial backup and two subsequent incremental backups. However, only two files have been created:
>> My Mac-2.tib 308 GB
>> My Mac-2.tib.metadata 42.8 MB
I am very familiar with ATI for Windows (have this on my Windows PC) and note that ATI-Win created separate field for each backup up action (initial full, and each incremental backup).
Please can you explain how ATI for Mac ensures there are backups for each day in the 10 day backup cycle before another full backup is made to start the 10 day cycle all over again? Does ATI-Mac preserve the original and past backups or does it simply over write these?
I do notice that the incremental backup times (about 2hr) are much shorter that the full backup times (about 15hr) for the entire Mac HD.
Does ATI for Mac have a subset of backup folders in the My Mac-2.tib file?
Any help you can provide to clarify these issues would be much appreciated since its not in the ATI-Mac user Manual.
CM
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Is that statement true when i run the application manually, that is not at a pre determined time and day?
Is that statement true when i run the application manually, that is not at a pre determined time and day?
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Based on my limited experience with ATI for Mac, I don't think it makes any difference. I have tried both scheduled and manual backups and all I see in the local disk directory are two files as stated previously ), .tib, and ... .tib.metadata). I wish there was better documentation similar to that for AT for Windows.
I am still struggling with the Cloud backup, but seem to be thwarted by a vey slow Charter cable ISP upload speed - about 4.3 Mbps!
Based on my limited experience with ATI for Mac, I don't think it makes any difference. I have tried both scheduled and manual backups and all I see in the local disk directory are two files as stated previously ), .tib, and ... .tib.metadata). I wish there was better documentation similar to that for AT for Windows.
I am still struggling with the Cloud backup, but seem to be thwarted by a vey slow Charter cable ISP upload speed - about 4.3 Mbps!
I guess I will ask a formal question to SUPPORT on that matter just to be sure.
So, what's the deal, simple question Acronis, how, where, does documentation specific to INCREMENTAL backup exist?
Out of control
From the manual page 7:
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Backup versions
A backup version is a file created during a backup operation. Each version represents a point in time
to which the system or data can be restored.
The first backup version contains all the data selected for backup. The second and subsequent
versions contain only data changes that occurred since the previous backup version.
...... shortened here .....
Backup retention rules
Every time you run a backup operation, manually or on a schedule, Acronis True Image 2015 creates
a new backup version in the backup location. A maximum of 10 versions are stored in one location.
This rule applies to both Acronis Cloud and local or network folders. When you create the eleventh
version, Acronis True Image 2015 automatically deletes the oldest version of the backup. As a result,
you always have the ten most recent backup versions.
Note: In the case of a local or network backup location, you can create more than 10 versions by
setting a new destination for the backup. The versions stored in the previous location will not be
deleted.
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Initial and all incremental backups are stored in two (*.tib and *.tib.metadata). This is different from the windows version.
It is not possible to exclude any files from backup, because ATI Mac always does a drive-backup (right now?!?)
Restore can be made by drive, folder or file selection.
If you have big files changing regulary and want to exclude them from backup, you have to choose another product (right now?!?)
Hope that helps
Most accurate comments.
Many thanks